---
title: "Delete an email message"
method: DELETE
path: "/email_messages/{id}"
tags: ["Email Messages"]
---

# Delete an email message

`DELETE /email_messages/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.telnyx.com/v2`
- URL: `https://api.telnyx.com/v2/email_messages/{id}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Permanently deletes an account-scoped email message, its events, its durable
recipients, and unshared attachment objects. Returns 404 when the message does
not exist in the authenticated account. The legacy `/v2/emails/{id}` DELETE
route is a backward-compatible alias.

## Path parameters

- `id` string, uuid, required

## Response `204`

Email data deleted successfully.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request / Validation Failed (10015).
- `401`: Not authorized (10006).
- `404`: Resource not found (10001).
- `500`: Internal server error (10019).

## Changes

- **2026-10-15** `a72569d69430`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/team-telnyx/apis/telnyx-api/changes/email_messages/:id/delete.md)

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