---
search:
  tags:
    - Messages
    - POST
seo:
  description: >-
    A recipient is held when evidence about this message said its mailbox…
    Reference for the POST /v1/messages/{id}/release_holds endpoint in the
    Norbelys API.
sidebar:
  label: Release a message's holds.
  badge: POST
title: Release a message's holds.
type: openapi-operation
---
A recipient is held when evidence about this message said its mailbox was full, its server
asked to come back later, or its domain had no mail route: mail to the address waits until a
later success of the message lifts the hold, the hold's time runs out, or a person who knows
better releases it here. Every open hold of the message is resolved as `manual`, so mail to
those addresses flows again, and the evidence is kept in the workspace's audit log. A message
without open holds is answered as it is.

`POST /v1/messages/{id}/release_holds`