---
title: "Cancel a scheduled email message"
method: DELETE
path: "/email_messages/{email_id}/schedule"
tags: ["Email Messages"]
---

# Cancel a scheduled email message

`DELETE /email_messages/{email_id}/schedule`

Cancels a scheduled email and returns it with status `cancelled`. The legacy `/v2/emails/{id}/schedule` DELETE route is an alias.

## Path parameters

- `email_id` string, uuid, required

## Response `200`

Scheduled email cancelled.

- EmailMessageResponse
  - `data` EmailMessage, required
    - `record_type` 'email_message', required
    - `id` string, uuid, required
    - `status` 'queued' | 'scheduled' | 'cancelled' | 'sandbox' | 'sending' | 'sent' | 'failed' | 'deferred' | 'delivered' | 'bounced' | 'complained' | 'rejected' | 'opened' | 'clicked' | 'unsubscribed', required — Current status of an email message. Lifecycle statuses (queued, scheduled, etc.) are set on creation. Delivery statuses (delivered, bounced, etc.) are updated by delivery event consumers.
    - `from` EmailAddress, required
      - `email` string, required
      - `name` string
    - `to` EmailAddress[], required
      - `email` string, required
      - `name` string
    - `cc` EmailAddress[], required
      - `email` string, required
      - `name` string
    - `bcc` EmailAddress[], required
      - `email` string, required
      - `name` string
    - `reply_to` string, nullable, required
    - `subject` string, required
    - `template_id` string, uuid, nullable, required
    - `template_variables` object, required
    - `attachments` AttachmentResponse[], required
      - `url` string, uri, nullable, required — Telnyx-hosted public URL for the attachment content.
      - `sha256` string, nullable, required — SHA-256 hex digest of the attachment content.
      - `size_bytes` integer, nullable, required — Attachment size in bytes.
      - `filename` string, required
      - `content_type` string, required
      - `disposition` string, required — MIME disposition (e.g. `attachment` or `inline`). Runtime passes through the stored value without enforcing an enum.
      - `content_id` string, nullable, required — MIME Content-ID for inline references.
    - `events` MessageEvent[], required
      - `type` 'queued' | 'deferred' | 'scheduled' | 'cancelled' | 'sandbox' | 'sending' | 'sent' | 'failed' | 'delivered' | 'bounced' | 'complained' | 'rejected' | 'opened' | 'clicked' | 'unsubscribed' | 'daily_limit_exceeded', required
      - `occurred_at` string, date-time, required
      - `payload` object
    - `created_at` string, date-time, required
    - `scheduled_at` string, date-time — Present when a scheduled_at value was stored. Persists even after the scheduled send has been processed or cancelled.
    - `inline_css` boolean — Present when true in the immediate create response. Not persisted; absent on subsequent GET requests.
    - `sandbox` boolean — Present when sandbox mode was used.
    - `recipient_statuses` object — Per-status recipient counts for the message. Present only for outbound messages with recipient rows. Keys are recipient statuses, values are counts. Example: `{"delivered": 998, "bounced": 2}`.
    - `suppressed` SuppressedRecipient[] — Recipients excluded from delivery by suppression checks, with reasons. On batch items, present when that item had suppressed recipients; all other recipients of the item still receive the message. For single sends this information appears at the top level of the response instead (see EmailMessageResponse.suppressed).
      - `to` string, email, required — Suppressed recipient email address.
      - `reason` string, required — Suppression reason returned by the recipient suppression service.
      - `scope` string, required — Scope at which the suppression applies.
      - `override_allowed` boolean, required — Whether an authorized send may override this suppression.
  - `suppressed` SuppressedRecipient[] — Recipients removed by suppression checks when at least one recipient remains and the message is accepted.
    - `to` string, email, required — Suppressed recipient email address.
    - `reason` string, required — Suppression reason returned by the recipient suppression service.
    - `scope` string, required — Scope at which the suppression applies.
    - `override_allowed` boolean, required — Whether an authorized send may override this suppression.

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request / Validation Failed (10015).
- `401` — Not authorized (10006).
- `404` — Resource not found (10001).

## Changes

> 78 revisions in range; 1 not diffed.

- **2026-09-22** `9621f6123ebc` — 6 warning
  - added the new `10011` enum value to the `errors/items/code` response property for the response status `400`
  - added the new `10011` enum value to the `errors/items/code` response property for the response status `401`
  - added the new `10011` enum value to the `errors/items/code` response property for the response status `404`
  - added the new `domain_graduation_limit_exceeded` enum value to the `errors/items/code` response property for the response status `400`
  - …2 more
- **2026-09-16** `a6a61a29ecdd` — 1 info
  - added the optional property `data/suppressed` to the response with the `200` status
- **2026-07-28** `b1bf96d8391e` — 1 breaking, 3 warning, 8 info
  - removed the required property `data/inserted_at` from the response with the `200` status
  - removed the optional property `data/send_at` from the response with the `200` status
  - removed the optional property `data/suppressed` from the response with the `200` status
  - added the new `daily_limit_exceeded` enum value to the `data/events/items/type` response property for the response status `200`
  - …8 more
- …earlier changes not shown

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/team-telnyx/apis/telnyx-api-2/changes/email_messages/:email_id/schedule/delete.md)

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