---
title: "Request Mailbox Cancellation"
method: POST
path: "/mailboxes/{mailbox_id}/request-cancellation"
tags: ["Mailboxes"]
---

# Request Mailbox Cancellation

`POST /mailboxes/{mailbox_id}/request-cancellation`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://be.graph8.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://be.graph8.com/api/v1/mailboxes/{mailbox_id}/request-cancellation`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Stop paying for a purchased mailbox. STOPS SPEND; eventually destroys it.

Two steps, and this is the first: the mailbox is scheduled for
cancellation at the provider and keeps working until its current period
ends. A poller then flips it to cancelled, after which
`DELETE /mailboxes/{mailbox_id}` removes graph8's record of it.

Reversible with `POST /mailboxes/uncancel` while it is still scheduled -
which resumes billing.

422 for a mailbox that was not purchased through graph8, or one already in
the cancellation flow. 502 if the provider refused - read that as "nothing
was cancelled", not as a partial success.

Needs a personal API key whose user holds a mailbox write permission.

## Path parameters

- `mailbox_id` integer, required: Mailbox id (mailboxes.id)

## Headers

- `Authorization` string, nullable
- `X-Target-Org-Id` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ApiResponseMailboxDomainPayload
  - `data` MailboxDomainPayload, required: An open envelope for one provider/deliverability result. Open on purpose. These payloads are provider state and advisory reads whose contents grow with the product, and a dropped field reads as "nothing to report" rather than "we did not tell you". Every value passes through ``scrub_vendor_names`` on the way in.
  - `pagination` PaginationMeta
    - `page` integer, required: Current page number (1-indexed)
    - `limit` integer, required: Items per page
    - `total` integer, required: Total number of items
    - `has_next` boolean, required: Whether there are more pages
    - `next_cursor` string, nullable: Opaque cursor for the next page; null when there are no more items. Pass it back as the `cursor` query param to fetch the following page without computing page numbers.
    - `total_available` integer, nullable: Search endpoints only: how many records really match, when known. Can be larger than `total`, which is capped at the 10,000 results that can be paged. For company search this is a distinct-company estimate. Null when unknown; absent outside search.
    - `total_is_lower_bound` boolean, nullable: Search endpoints only: true when more records match than `total` shows (the result set is larger than the 10,000 results that can be paged). Absent outside search.
    - `notes` string[], nullable: Search endpoints only: plain-language notes about the result, e.g. that more records match than can be paged, or that a reversed `between` range was put in order.

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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