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Get account Email Sending suppression

GET/accounts/{account_id}/email/sending/suppressions/{suppression_id}

Gets an Email Sending suppression owned by the account.

Security
API Token

The preferred authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. Create a token.

Example:Authorization: Bearer Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY
API Email + API Key

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API, used in conjunction with a Global API key.

Example:X-Auth-Email: user@example.com

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. When possible, use API tokens instead of Global API keys.

Example:X-Auth-Key: 144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194
Path ParametersExpand Collapse
account_id: string

Cloudflare account ID.

suppression_id: string

The suppression’s identifier.

formatuuid
ReturnsExpand Collapse
errors: array of unknown
messages: array of unknown
result: object { id, created_at, email, 5 more }
id: string

Unique identifier for this suppression.

formatuuid
created_at: string

When the suppression was created.

formatdate-time
email: string

The suppressed email address.

formatemail
expires_at: string

When the suppression expires. Null for a permanent suppression.

formatdate-time
read_only: boolean

Whether clients may mutate this suppression. This is determined by the server and must not be inferred from reason.

reason: string

Why the address is suppressed: manual, complaint, hard_bounce, soft_bounce, or policy.

note: optional string

Advisory note for this suppression, if any.

scope: optional object { type } or object { type, value }

Where the suppression applies: account for every sending domain of the account, or sending_domain for one envelope MAIL FROM domain.

One of the following:
Type object { type }
type: "account"

Blocks the recipient for every sending domain of the account.

object { type, value }
type: "sending_domain"

Blocks the recipient only for mail whose envelope MAIL FROM uses value.

value: string

The sending domain: the domain part of the envelope MAIL FROM, lowercase, without a trailing dot.

maxLength1024
success: boolean

Get account Email Sending suppression

curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/email/sending/suppressions/$SUPPRESSION_ID \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"
{
  "errors": [
    {}
  ],
  "messages": [
    {}
  ],
  "result": {
    "id": "396a5436-d4b0-42a6-b3fc-48e8fa522321",
    "created_at": "2026-01-02T02:20:00Z",
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "expires_at": "2027-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "read_only": false,
    "reason": "hard_bounce",
    "note": "Imported from CRM",
    "scope": {
      "type": "sending_domain",
      "value": "mail.example.com"
    }
  },
  "success": true
}
Returns Examples
{
  "errors": [
    {}
  ],
  "messages": [
    {}
  ],
  "result": {
    "id": "396a5436-d4b0-42a6-b3fc-48e8fa522321",
    "created_at": "2026-01-02T02:20:00Z",
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "expires_at": "2027-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "read_only": false,
    "reason": "hard_bounce",
    "note": "Imported from CRM",
    "scope": {
      "type": "sending_domain",
      "value": "mail.example.com"
    }
  },
  "success": true
}