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# Verify owned domain

> Look up the TXT record now and update `status`. Call this after publishing the record. A resolver failure leaves the status unchanged rather than marking the domain failed.



## OpenAPI

````yaml https://api.openmail.sh/openapi.json post /v1/owned-domains/{id}/verify
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: OpenMail API
  description: >-
    Email infrastructure API for AI agents. Create inboxes, send and receive
    email, and get real-time notifications via webhooks.
  version: 1.0.0
  license:
    name: Proprietary
servers:
  - url: https://api.openmail.sh
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: pods
    description: Isolated sub-accounts for your end users or tenants
  - name: inboxes
    description: Email inboxes and their webhook configuration
  - name: domains
    description: >-
      Custom domains: add your own sending/receiving domain, publish DNS, and
      verify it
  - name: owned-domains
    description: >-
      Domains your organisation controls but does not send from. Prove ownership
      with one TXT record and mail to their addresses stops counting toward the
      cold outreach limits.
  - name: messages
    description: Sending and listing messages
  - name: threads
    description: Conversation threads and read status
  - name: attachments
    description: Downloading and extracting text from attachments
  - name: policy
    description: >-
      Correspondent policy — provider-enforced allow/block rules and allowlist
      mode, scoped per account, pod, or inbox. Account-wide key only.
  - name: limits
    description: >-
      Sending limits: today's cold outreach caps on new recipients, per account,
      inbox, and domain, and what raises them
  - name: feedback
    description: Reporting bugs, friction, and feature requests to the OpenMail team
paths:
  /v1/owned-domains/{id}/verify:
    post:
      tags:
        - owned-domains
      summary: Verify owned domain
      description: >-
        Look up the TXT record now and update `status`. Call this after
        publishing the record. A resolver failure leaves the status unchanged
        rather than marking the domain failed.
      operationId: verifyOwnedDomain
      parameters:
        - schema:
            type: string
          in: path
          name: id
          required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Re-checked; the returned domain reflects the latest status
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                description: Re-checked; the returned domain reflects the latest status
                allOf:
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/OwnedDomain'
        '403':
          description: The key is pod- or inbox-scoped (`forbidden`)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                description: The key is pod- or inbox-scoped (`forbidden`)
                allOf:
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '404':
          description: Not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                description: Not found
                allOf:
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
  schemas:
    OwnedDomain:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: true
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: Owned domain ID
        domain:
          type: string
          description: >-
            The domain your organisation controls, e.g. `acme.com`. Subdomains
            are covered too.
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
            - pending
            - verified
            - failed
          description: >-
            `pending` — added, TXT record not yet seen. `verified` — recipients
            on this domain are not metered as cold outreach. `failed` — the
            record was verified before and has since disappeared; publish it
            again and call verify.
        record:
          type: object
          description: The one TXT record to publish to prove ownership.
          properties:
            type:
              type: string
              enum:
                - TXT
            host:
              type: string
              description: Record name, e.g. `_openmail-owner.acme.com`
            value:
              type: string
              description: Record value, e.g. `openmail-owner=…`
        verifiedAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          nullable: true
        checkedAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: When the record was last looked up, whatever the result.
          nullable: true
        createdAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
    Error:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: true
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: API key

````

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