---
title: "Permanently delete a captured message"
method: DELETE
path: "/api/v1/rest/email/messages/{id}"
tags: ["Email & PEC"]
---

# Permanently delete a captured message

`DELETE /api/v1/rest/email/messages/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.custodo.ai`
- URL: `https://api.custodo.ai/api/v1/rest/email/messages/{id}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Soft-deletes one archived message — its own permission, `email:delete`, separate from `email:write`, because this is a stronger act than trashing (see email_set_flags for the recoverable version). The database trigger still has the final word: a message under legal hold or mandatory retention refuses with LEGAL_HOLD or RETENTION_ACTIVE rather than being deleted. Confirm with the user first — there is no undo.

**Examples**

- Delete that spam message
  `DELETE /api/v1/rest/email/messages/11111111-2222-4333-8444-555555555555`

## Path parameters

- `id` string, uuid, required

## Headers

- `X-Tenant-Id` string, uuid

## Response `200`

Done. `data` is the tool’s own answer.

- RestResult
  - `ok` true, required
  - `data` unknown, required

## Other responses

- `400`: The arguments did not validate: `error.message` names the field, what it expects and what arrived.
- `401`: No API key, or one that is malformed, unknown, revoked or expired.
- `403`: The call never ran: the module is off for this organisation, the credential lacks the permission or the module, the tier does not cover it, or the tool is destructive and the key was not minted for that.
- `404`: Nothing with that id in this organisation.
- `409`: The record is in a state that does not allow it — under legal hold, already sent, already closed. `error.code` says which.
- `422`: The tool ran and refused, in a sentence of its own (`TOOL_REFUSED`): the message says what to change. Retrying the same call will not help.
- `429`: The API key has spent its minute, or its day. Every request a key makes counts. See `Retry-After`.

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