Disable Email Routing

DELETE/zones/{zone_id}/email/routing/dns

Disable your Email Routing zone. Also removes additional MX records previously required for Email Routing to work.

Security

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

Accepted Permissions (at least one required)

Zone Settings Write

Path ParametersExpand Collapse

zone_id: string

Identifier.

maxLength32

ReturnsExpand Collapse

EmailAPIResponseCommon { errors, messages, success }

errors: array of { code, message, documentation_url, source }

code: number

minimum1000

message: string

documentation_url: optional string

source: optional { pointer }

pointer: optional string

messages: array of { code, message, documentation_url, source }

code: number

minimum1000

message: string

documentation_url: optional string

source: optional { pointer }

pointer: optional string

success: true

Whether the API call was successful.

EmailDNSSettingsResponseCollection { errors, messages, success, 2 more }

errors: array of { code, message, documentation_url, source }

code: number

minimum1000

message: string

documentation_url: optional string

source: optional { pointer }

pointer: optional string

messages: array of { code, message, documentation_url, source }

code: number

minimum1000

message: string

documentation_url: optional string

source: optional { pointer }

pointer: optional string

success: true

Whether the API call was successful.

result: optional array of DNSRecord { content, name, priority, 2 more }

content: optional string

DNS record content.

name: optional string

DNS record name (or @ for the zone apex).

maxLength255

priority: optional number

Required for MX, SRV and URI records. Unused by other record types. Records with lower priorities are preferred.

maximum65535

minimum0

ttl: optional number or 1

Time to live, in seconds, of the DNS record. Must be between 60 and 86400, or 1 for ‘automatic’.

One of the following:

number

Time to live, in seconds, of the DNS record. Must be between 60 and 86400, or 1 for ‘automatic’.

type: optional "A" or "AAAA" or "CNAME" or 15 more

DNS record type.

One of the following:

"A"

"AAAA"

"CNAME"

"HTTPS"

"TXT"

"SRV"

"LOC"

"MX"

"NS"

"CERT"

"DNSKEY"

"DS"

"NAPTR"

"SMIMEA"

"SSHFP"

"SVCB"

"TLSA"

"URI"

result_info: optional { count, page, per_page, 2 more }

count: optional number

Total number of results for the requested service.

page: optional number

Current page within paginated list of results.

per_page: optional number

Number of results per page of results.

total_count: optional number

Total results available without any search parameters.

total_pages: optional number

The number of total pages in the entire result set.

Disable Email Routing

curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$ZONE_ID/email/routing/dns \
    -X DELETE \
    -H "X-Auth-Email: $CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL" \
    -H "X-Auth-Key: $CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY"

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}

Returns Examples

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}