email-mailboxes

Delete a mailbox

Deletes a mailbox. The address stops receiving mail immediately and enters quarantine. After 30 days, your workspace can bind the address to a new mailbox; the address remains reserved to your workspace. You can restore the mailbox for 30 days with POST /email/mailboxes/{mailbox_id}/restore. Normal message-retention expiry continues during that period. After 30 days, the mailbox and its remaining messages are permanently deleted. Returns 409 (E01028) if an enabled inbound route targets the mailbox. Disable, delete, or redirect those routes before retrying.

delete/v1/email/mailboxes/{mailbox_id}

Request

  • Base URL: https://us1.platform.bird.com
  • URL: https://us1.platform.bird.com/v1/email/mailboxes/{mailbox_id}
  • Auth: one of:
    • HTTP bearer
    • API key in cookie bird_session

Headers

Idempotency-Keystring

Client-supplied key. On operations supporting request deduplication, a retained response is replayed for duplicate requests with the same key within the idempotency window (3 hours by default). This protection requires a workspace, organization, or staff-account scope. User-only and unscoped unauthenticated operations, streams, and operations with a separate replay contract do not use this response replay.

On a supported operation, if idempotency protection is unavailable before execution, the API returns 503 IdempotencyUnavailable (E01033) without executing this attempt. Retry with backoff using the same key and request. An operation that takes effect before its response is retained can still execute again on retry.

Two distinct 409 errors signal misuse:

  • request_in_progress (E01004): The same key is currently being processed by a concurrent request. Wait briefly and retry. The lock expires within 30 seconds.
  • idempotency_key_reuse (E01005): The same key has already completed against a different request body or method. Generate a new key.

Recommended key format is <event-type>/<entity-id> (for example welcome-user/usr_abc123).

X-Workspace-Idstring

Workspace context for the request. Required for dashboard authentication and master keys. Workspace keys and access tokens already identify their workspace; send that workspace or omit the header. A different one is rejected.

X-Organization-Idstring

Organization context for the request. Required for dashboard authentication. An API key or access token carries its own organization, so send either that organization or no header at all; a different one is rejected.

Response

Mailbox deleted.

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 2 revisions of this API.