# `bird email mailboxes delete`

## Usage

```bash
bird email mailboxes delete <mailbox-id> [flags]
```

## Description

Delete a mailbox. The address stops receiving immediately and is quarantined; the mailbox and its remembered messages stay restorable for 30 days via the restore endpoint, then are permanently deleted.

This is destructive and cannot be undone; pass --yes to confirm.

## Examples

```bash
bird email mailboxes delete <id> --yes
```

## Options

#### Safety

| Name                | Description                                                    |
| ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--idempotency-key` | Deduplication key; a retry with the same key won't act twice   |
| `--yes`             | Confirm a destructive action (required; the CLI never prompts) |

## Related

| Name                                                                          | Description                       |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
| [`bird email mailboxes compose`](/docs/cli/reference/email-mailboxes-compose) | Send a new message from a mailbox |
| [`bird email mailboxes create`](/docs/cli/reference/email-mailboxes-create)   | Create a mailbox                  |
| [`bird email mailboxes get`](/docs/cli/reference/email-mailboxes-get)         | Get a mailbox                     |
| [`bird email mailboxes labels`](/docs/cli/reference/email-mailboxes-labels)   | List a mailbox's labels           |
| [`bird email mailboxes list`](/docs/cli/reference/email-mailboxes-list)       | List mailboxes                    |
| [`bird email mailboxes restore`](/docs/cli/reference/email-mailboxes-restore) | Restore a deleted mailbox         |
| [`bird email mailboxes resume`](/docs/cli/reference/email-mailboxes-resume)   | Resume a suspended mailbox        |
| [`bird email mailboxes stats`](/docs/cli/reference/email-mailboxes-stats)     | Mailbox email statistics          |
| [`bird email mailboxes update`](/docs/cli/reference/email-mailboxes-update)   | Update a mailbox                  |