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# Get Recipient Suppression

> Check local and Amazon SES suppression for one exact recipient address.

# Get Recipient Suppression

Checks one exact recipient against Sequenzy's local bounce and complaint
safeguards and the Amazon SES account-level suppression list. This endpoint does
not list unrelated recipients from the shared SES account.

By default, Sequenzy checks the default SES region and every region currently
used by the company's sending domains.

## Request

<ParamField path="email" type="string" required>
  Exact recipient email address. URL-encode the value when constructing the
  request URL.
</ParamField>

<ParamField query="region" type="string">
  Optional AWS SES region such as `us-east-1`. Use this to limit the lookup to
  one known region.
</ParamField>

```bash theme={null}
curl "https://api.sequenzy.com/api/v1/suppressions/user%40example.com" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer API_KEY"
```

## Response

<ResponseExample>
  ```json 200 theme={null}
  {
    "success": true,
    "suppression": {
      "email": "user@example.com",
      "knownRecipient": true,
      "suppressed": true,
      "local": {
        "suppressed": false,
        "reason": null,
        "source": null,
        "suppressionId": null
      },
      "ses": {
        "regionsChecked": ["us-east-1"],
        "entries": [
          {
            "email": "user@example.com",
            "region": "us-east-1",
            "reason": "BOUNCE",
            "lastUpdateTime": "2026-07-15T09:00:00.000Z",
            "messageId": "ses-message-id",
            "feedbackId": "feedback-id"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
  ```
</ResponseExample>

`knownRecipient` indicates whether the address appears in this company's
subscriber or email-send history. Unknown addresses return empty local and SES
results so the endpoint cannot be used to probe suppressions belonging only to
another company on the shared SES account.