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## Summary

Inboxes can now pause themselves at a time you choose. Set `pause_at` when you create an inbox, or later, and AgentMail pauses it when that time comes, with no scheduler on your side. This is built for inboxes sold or provisioned for a fixed term.

### What's new?

* **`pause_at` on create and update:** within about five minutes after it, the inbox becomes paused exactly as if you had set `status` to `paused`, and `pause_at` is cleared.
* **Renew or cancel:** update `pause_at` to move the pause, or send `null` to cancel it. After the pause has happened, set `status` to `active` with a new `pause_at`.
* **Returned on the inbox:** `pause_at` appears on inbox responses, in UTC, while a pause is scheduled.
* **Scoped to the account holder:** only organization- and pod-scoped API keys can change `pause_at` on an existing inbox.

> **Note**
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> See [Scheduling a pause](https://docs.agentmail.to/inboxes#scheduling-a-pause) for examples.