# Remove an email address

> Remove an email address from your account.

<div class="g1t-endpoint"><span class="g1t-method" data-method="delete">DELETE</span><code>/user/emails/{email}</code></div>

Never your primary address (make another primary first) and never your last confirmed one. Needs your account `password`; every confirmed address, the removed one included, is told. People only.

Give the address in the path, URL-encoded: `DELETE /user/emails/ada.l%40example.org`. Answers `409` for your primary address or your last confirmed one.

- **Authentication:** Required. Send an [access token](/reference/api/#authentication) as `Authorization: Bearer`.
- **MCP tool:** [`account`](/reference/mcp/#account) with `action` `remove_email`, and the same inputs
- **Scope:** An access token needs [`account:write`](/guides/authentication/#scopes).

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `email` | string | Yes | The address to remove. |

## Body parameters

Send a JSON object. Names are `snake_case`, as in responses; the `camelCase` spelling is accepted too.

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `password` | string | Yes | Your account password, to confirm it is you. An account that signs in only with GitHub changes its addresses on g1t.sh. |

## Example request

```sh
curl -X DELETE https://api.g1t.sh/user/emails/email \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $G1T_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "password": "…"
  }'
```

## Example response

A successful request answers `200` with:

```json
{
  "emails": [
    {
      "email": "ada@example.com",
      "verified": true,
      "primary": true,
      "backup": false,
      "created_at": "2026-09-01T10:00:00.000Z",
      "verified_at": "2026-09-01T10:02:11.000Z"
    },
    {
      "email": "ada@acme.com",
      "verified": true,
      "primary": false,
      "backup": true,
      "created_at": "2026-10-02T09:30:00.000Z",
      "verified_at": "2026-10-02T09:31:40.000Z"
    },
    {
      "email": "ada.l@example.org",
      "verified": false,
      "primary": false,
      "backup": false,
      "created_at": "2026-10-05T14:12:03.000Z",
      "verified_at": null
    }
  ],
  "private_email": true,
  "block_private_pushes": false,
  "noreply": "6c1d0efg+ada@users.noreply.g1t.sh",
  "commit_email": "6c1d0efg+ada@users.noreply.g1t.sh",
  "limit": 10
}
```

## Errors

A failed request answers with one of these statuses and a body like `{"error": {"code": "not_found", "message": "Repository not found."}}`. See [errors](/reference/api/#errors).

| Status | Code | When |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 401 | `unauthenticated` | A token is required, or the one sent is not valid. |
| 403 | `forbidden` | The token is valid but not allowed to do this, such as a member-only change or an agent token outside its repository. |
| 404 | `not_found` | It does not exist, or you cannot see it. |
| 409 | `conflict` | The request conflicts with the current state. |
| 422 | `invalid` | The input is not valid. `message` says which field and why. |