Once Email official documentation · v1

Messages and attachments

Messages and attachments: Authoritative product and developer guidance for receiving temporary email, troubleshooting delivery, and testing authorized email flows safely.

Reviewed 15 August 2026

What you can do

Messages and attachments: Authoritative product and developer guidance for receiving temporary email, troubleshooting delivery, and testing authorized email flows safely. The SMTP whole-message limit is 10,240,000 bytes including headers, body, MIME structure, and transfer encoding. Verify the current page version and follow the linked next step; never infer a capability from a screenshot, old article, or package name.

Failures and recovery

Messages and attachments: Authoritative product and developer guidance for receiving temporary email, troubleshooting delivery, and testing authorized email flows safely. A single ordinary document at or below 5 MiB is a conservative recommendation, not a delivery guarantee. Verify the current page version and follow the linked next step; never infer a capability from a screenshot, old article, or package name.

Security and limits

Messages and attachments: Authoritative product and developer guidance for receiving temporary email, troubleshooting delivery, and testing authorized email flows safely. Attachments are forced downloads with sanitized names; receipt does not mean malware scanning or safety certification. Verify the current page version and follow the linked next step; never infer a capability from a screenshot, old article, or package name.