---
title: "Delete email messages by address"
method: DELETE
path: "/email_messages"
tags: ["Email Messages"]
---

# Delete email messages by address

`DELETE /email_messages`

Permanently deletes every email in the authenticated account sent from or to the
supplied address, including retained events whose parent message has expired.
Events and durable recipients are deleted immediately with each message. The
operation never searches or reports matches in another account. The legacy
`/v2/emails` DELETE route is a backward-compatible alias.

## Query parameters

- `address` string, email, required

## Response `204`

Matching account-scoped 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).

---

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