Method: users.settings.cse.identities.delete

Deletes a client-side encryption identity. The authenticated user can no longer use the identity to send encrypted messages.

You cannot restore the identity after you delete it. Instead, use the identities.create method to create another identity with the same configuration.

HTTP request

DELETE https://gmail.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/{userId}/settings/cse/identities/{cseEmailAddress}

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
userId

string

The requester's primary email address. To indicate the authenticated user, you can use the special value me.
cseEmailAddress

string

The primary email address associated with the client-side encryption identity configuration that's removed.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body is empty.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.settings.basic
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.settings.sharing

For more information, see the Authorization guide.