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Zoho Mail Accounts API

Manage email accounts, vacation replies, forwarding, and account settings

Zoho Mail Accounts API is one of 4 APIs that Zoho Mail publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Accounts. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, and authentication docs.

This API exposes 4 operations across 3 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against 9 base URLs: https://mail.zoho.com, https://mail.zoho.eu, https://mail.zoho.in, https://mail.zoho.com.au, https://mail.zoho.jp, https://mail.zohocloud.ca, https://mail.zoho.ae, https://mail.zoho.sa, https://mail.zoho.com.cn.

4 operations 3 paths 3 schemas 2 GET2 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://mail.zoho.com/api
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Zoho Mail Accounts API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 11 scopes. By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 4

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 2 GET, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Accounts 4

Manage email accounts, vacation replies, forwarding, and account settings

GET
/api/accounts
Get authenticated user accounts
listAccounts → 200
GET
/api/accounts/{accountId}
Get account details
getAccount 1 param → 200
PUT
/api/accounts/{accountId}
Update account settings
updateAccount 1 param body → 200
PUT
/api/organization/{zoid}/accounts/{accountId}
Admin update user account
adminUpdateAccount 2 params body → 200

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Account (4 properties), ApiResponse (2 properties), ApiStatus (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ApiStatus
object
2 properties
Account
object
4 properties
ApiResponse
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

zoho-mail-accounts-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Zoho Mail publishes across the network.

Zoho Mail Folders API
Zoho Mail Messages API
Zoho Mail Organization API