---
title: "Delete email account's outgoing messages"
method: GET
path: "/Email/delete_held_messages"
tags: ["Email", "Email Accounts"]
---

# Delete email account's outgoing messages

`GET /Email/delete_held_messages`

This function deletes all outbound email messages held in the mail queue for the specified email account.

**Important:**

  When you disable the [*Receive Mail* role](https://go.cpanel.net/serverroles), the system **disables** this function.

## Query parameters

- `email` string, email, required

## Response `200`

HTTP Request was successful.

- object
  - `apiversion` integer — The version of the API.
  - `func` string — The name of the method called.
  - `module` string — The name of the module called.
  - `result` object
    - `data` integer — The number of held outbound email messages deleted from the mail queue. **Note:** This function returns a `0` value when no messages exist in the queue.
    - `errors` string[], nullable — List of errors if the API failed.
    - `messages` string[], nullable — List of messages generated by the API.
    - `metadata` object
    - `status` 0 | 1 — * `1` - Success. * `0` - Failed. Check the `errors` field for more details.
    - `warnings` string[], nullable — List of warnings generated by the API. Warnings describe non-critical failures or other problematic conditions noted while running a API.

---

[API](https://skmtc.net/cpanel/apis/cpanel-uapi.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/cpanel/apis/cpanel-uapi/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/cpanel/cpanel-uapi/revisions/632e2f8e6d04/schema)