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Quarantine delete

POST/quarantine/messages/delete

Email Management API · Quarantine

Delete one or more messages from quarantine.

Parameters

Name In Type Required Description
X-Tenant-ID header string (uuid) Yes Tenant ID.

Request body

Content type: application/json

Request body fields

blockSenderboolean
Whether to add the sender to the block list.
itemsarray of objectrequired
Items to be deleted.
Must contain at most 50 items.
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idstring (uuid)required
ID from 'X-Sophos-Email-ID' MIME header.
forRecipientsarray of string
Target email addresses.

Request samples

curl -X POST "https://api-<data-region>.central.sophos.com/email/v1/quarantine/messages/delete" -H "Authorization: Bearer <access-token>" -H "X-Tenant-ID: <tenant-id>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{
  \"blockSender\": false,
  \"items\": [
    {
      \"id\": \"15a7f8ea-691c-4f03-862e-3cefb102818e\",
      \"forRecipients\": [
        \"user_bob@sophos.com\"
      ]
    }
  ]
}"


import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api-<data-region>.central.sophos.com/email/v1/quarantine/messages/delete",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer <access-token>",
        "X-Tenant-ID": "<tenant-id>",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={   'blockSender': False,
    'items': [   {   'id': '15a7f8ea-691c-4f03-862e-3cefb102818e',
                     'forRecipients': ['user_bob@sophos.com']}]},
)
print(response.json())


$headers = @{
    "Authorization" = "Bearer <access-token>"
    "X-Tenant-ID" = "<tenant-id>"
    "Content-Type" = "application/json"
}
$body = '{
  "blockSender": false,
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "15a7f8ea-691c-4f03-862e-3cefb102818e",
      "forRecipients": [
        "user_bob@sophos.com"
      ]
    }
  ]
}'
Invoke-RestMethod -Method POST -Uri "https://api-<data-region>.central.sophos.com/email/v1/quarantine/messages/delete" -Headers $headers -Body $body -ContentType "application/json"


package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "net/http"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api-<data-region>.central.sophos.com/email/v1/quarantine/messages/delete", strings.NewReader(`{
  "blockSender": false,
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "15a7f8ea-691c-4f03-862e-3cefb102818e",
      "forRecipients": [
        "user_bob@sophos.com"
      ]
    }
  ]
}`))
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer <access-token>")
    req.Header.Set("X-Tenant-ID", "<tenant-id>")
    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

    resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}


const response = await fetch("https://api-<data-region>.central.sophos.com/email/v1/quarantine/messages/delete", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <access-token>",
    "X-Tenant-ID": "<tenant-id>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "blockSender": false,
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "15a7f8ea-691c-4f03-862e-3cefb102818e",
      "forRecipients": [
        "user_bob@sophos.com"
      ]
    }
  ]
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

Responses

200 — Messages deleted from quarantine.

Response fields

itemsarray of object
List of items for which the requested action was successful.
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idstring (uuid)required
ID from 'X-Sophos-Email-ID' MIME header.
recipientstringrequired
Target email address.
errorsarray of object
List of items for which requested action failed.
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idstring (uuid)required
ID from 'X-Sophos-Email-ID' MIME header.
recipientstringrequired
Email address where there was an error in performing requested action.
errorstring
Reason for error.

Errors

Status Meaning
400 Bad request.
500 Unexpected error.

All error responses share the same shape — see the error response object.

Response examples

200

{
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "15a7f8ea-691c-4f03-862e-3cefb102818e",
      "recipient": "user_bob@sophos.com"
    }
  ],
  "errors": [
    {
      "id": "15a7f8ea-691c-4f03-862e-3cefb102818e",
      "recipient": "user_bob@sophos.com",
      "error": "Already released"
    }
  ]
}

See the guide for a narrative walkthrough of this API.