# mail.askAdmin

Ask the organization's other administrators by email to approve the new sender of a financial email, with id and idempotencyKey. Sends at most one request per member for each email and never approves the sender itself.

`POST /api/v1/accounting/mail.askAdmin`

Permissions: `mail:read`, `mail:write` · Roles: admin, finance · Idempotency key required · Reaches outside Oatmilk (email or a provider)

MCP tool: `accounting_mail_ask_admin`

## Fields

| Field | Type | Required | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string (ID) | Yes | The record's ID. |
| `idempotencyKey` | string | Yes | Any unique text you generate once per intended change, so a retried request only happens once. Send it as the Idempotency-Key header instead if you prefer; if you send both they must match. 8–160 characters. |

## Example request

```bash
curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/mail.askAdmin \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "id": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d"
}'
```

Reference page: https://app.getoatmilk.com/docs/api/mail.askAdmin