**Give your emails a URL

any recipient can use to find that specific message.**

<aside> 💡 Install our Google Chrome Extension to add a “Copy Reference.Email Link” option to your Gmail browser window.

v2.10.0

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<aside> 📲 Install our Google Workspace Add-on to get “Copy” functionality in your GMail for iOS and GMail for Android apps. v2024-05-24

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<aside> 🎩 Questions? Comments? Concerns?

Send us a note: [email protected]

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<aside> 👌 Reference.Email’s use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

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How does it work?

Every email is embedded with an RFC822 Message ID that is unique to each email and searchable in most major email clients. (Gmail reports and interprets this as a value called rfc822msgid.) Creating a URL that searches for this message ID is guaranteed to return one-and-only-one message for anyone who received that email.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/rfc822msgid:CAKn99s4hxMXrQKiZYLUCmV6CG40paSxd6Qa=WNq57Jawn%[email protected]

Any user who follows this link (and received the original message) will see the search result for this one matching message in their inbox—including opening a specific message in the middle of a thread that has continued since:

See more Use Cases here.