Emails

Reschedule an email

PATCH
/api/v1/emails/{id}

Moves a still-scheduled send to a new time (ISO 8601 or natural language). Fails once the message has left the scheduled state.

Authorization

bearerAuth write
headerAuthorizationBearer <token>

An API key from the dashboard under Settings → API keys, sent as Authorization: Bearer aem_….

Authorization has two independent axes.

The scope is ranked — a key satisfies any requirement at or below its own tier:

  • read — see messages, contacts and metrics. Changes nothing, and cannot send.
  • write — everything read does, plus managing templates, contacts, automations, segments and suppressions. This is what editing a template needs.
  • admin — everything write does, plus sending configuration: domains, senders, webhook registration, kill switch, daily cap, brand.

There is no approve scope. It was a rung once; it is not one now, and a key requested with it is rejected.

The approval grant (can_approve) is a separate boolean, not a rung. Delivering mail to a real inbox needs write and the grant. Keeping them on separate axes is what makes the review gate a control rather than a convention: a key that may propose is not automatically a key that may approve its own proposal.

Give your application the lowest tier that works. Most need write and the grant — the dashboard mints that combination as Send + manage; Manage only is the same rung with the grant withheld.

Scope: write

Path Parameters

id*string

Message id of a scheduled send.

Request Body

application/json
  1. body
scheduled_at*string

New time — ISO 8601 or natural language.

Length1 <= length

Response Body

Rescheduled.

application/json
  1. response
id?string
status?"scheduled"
Value in"scheduled"
scheduled_at?string
Example Request
curl -X PATCH 'https://sendandretain.com/api/v1/emails/msg_3aF9c1' \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{  "scheduled_at": "2026-08-02T09:00:00Z"}'
Example Response
{  "id": "msg_3aF9c1",  "status": "scheduled",  "scheduled_at": "2026-08-02T09:00:00Z"}