---
title: "E04100 — BroadcastLateResumeUnconfirmed"
description: "This broadcast needs confirmation before resuming after 24 hours. Remaining recipients would receive the message later than intended."
canonical: "https://bird.com/docs/api/errors/E04100"
---

# E04100 — BroadcastLateResumeUnconfirmed

This broadcast needs confirmation before resuming after 24 hours. Remaining recipients would receive the message later than intended.

- **HTTP status**: `409`
- **Type**: `conflict_error`
- **Name**: `BroadcastLateResumeUnconfirmed`

## What to do

Review the broadcast's reported `started_at`. For older broadcasts without a sending start time, this is the send authorization time, or creation time if that is also missing. Have someone with `email_management:read` verify the message its remaining recipients will receive. Built-in templates may use frozen content or read the current catalogue again; neither a current lookup nor an earlier message alone proves what will send. Leave the broadcast paused if that content cannot be verified. Ask an authorized teammate if you lack that permission. To send it to the remaining recipients anyway, resume it again with `confirm` set to `true`, or `--yes` in the CLI. Otherwise, cancel it instead of resuming. The broadcast stays paused until resumption succeeds or cancellation takes effect.

Operations that resolve this:

- [Get a broadcast](/docs/api/reference/get-email-broadcast)
- [Get an email template](/docs/api/reference/get-email-template)
- [Get an email template version](/docs/api/reference/get-email-template-version)
- [Resume a broadcast](/docs/api/reference/resume-email-broadcast)

## Related

- [Idempotency](/docs/api/idempotency): safe retries and key reuse rules
- [E04xxx — Email sending & delivery](/docs/api/errors/E04xxx): every code in this range
- [Errors](/docs/api/errors): the full wire contract, status mapping, and error catalog
- [Error handling](/docs/guides/errors): branching on `type` and `code`, validation details, and `vendor_code`

## Related resources

- [Should I use a Bird SDK or call the API directly?](/explained/platform/should-i-use-an-sdk-or-call-the-api-directly) (answer)
- [Build your first integration](/learn/paths/integration) (course)
- [Send your first email](/docs/get-started/send-your-first-email) (docs)

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