How to create user on hMailServer programatically? - hmail-server

Question

We are writing a specialized PHP e-mail client and would like to give administrators of this client the ability to create user accounts on hMailServer.
I tried out imap_createmailbox(...) but it just creates a directory in the user's folder structure but does not "create a mailbox for a new user" as we want.
Is there some kind of interface that hMailServer has so that I can enable our PHP e-mail client to create hMailServer accounts via code?

Answer 1

Yes there two interfaces to create accounts in hmailserver.
One, via database, you can choose account and password hash type (0,1,2,3) and signature and other classic informations. I don't recommend this method for synchronisation reason, hmail-server take a caching time to consider the database update.
Two, which i recommend is to use API COM, its offers all possible methods in all cummon languages.
You have to enable D-COM in your windows server.
The API guide

Answer 2

hmailserver version: hMailServer 5.6.4 - Build 2283
complete solution of create new email account by hmailserver in c#
if you have configured hmailserver successfully, so then you can use the following steps to create new account by hmailserver in c#
hmailserver connection
private Domain HMailServerConnection() {
var objGlobal = new ApplicationClass();
objGlobal.Authenticate(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["HMailUsername"], ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["HMailPassword"]);
return objGlobal.Domains.get_ItemByName(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["hMailDomain"]);
}
function to create new email account
public string AddNewAccount(string email,string password)
{
try
{
Domain domain = HMailServerConnection();
Accounts accounts = domain.Accounts;
Account mailbox = accounts.Add();
mailbox.Address = email;
mailbox.Password = password;
mailbox.Save();
return "success";
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
return "error";
}
}
App settings in App.config or web.config
<appSettings>
<add key="hMailDomain" value="domainname"/>
<add key="HMailUsername" value="Username"/>
<add key="HMailPassword" value="password"/>
</appSettings>
see the link
its working i tested it.

Answer 3

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
$obBaseApp = new COM("hMailServer.Application", NULL, CP_UTF8);
$obBaseApp->Connect();
$hmail_config['rooturl'] = "http://localhost/";
$obAccount = $obBaseApp->Authenticate("Administrator", "hMailserver Administrator
password");
if (!isset($obAccount)) {
echo "<b>Not authenticated or Administrator's password wrong</b>";
} else {
try {
echo "<b>Logon COM [OK], now we can add accounts</b>";
$obDomain = $obBaseApp->Domains->ItemByDBID(1);
$obAccount = $obDomain->Accounts->ItemByDBID(1); // account id
$domainname = $obDomain->Name;
$obAccounts = $obDomain->Accounts();
$obAccount = $obDomain->Accounts->Add();
$newalias = "powerranger";
$firstname = "Arnold";
$lastname = "Schwarzenegger";
$my_domainname ="#mydomain.com";
$obAccount->PersonFirstName = $firstname;
$obAccount->PersonLastName = $lastname;
$obAccount->MaxSize = 102; // 102 MB set inbox space
$obAccount->Address = $newalias .$my_domainname;
$obAccount->Password = "secret"; // provide this in Thunderbird/Outlook ect.
$obAccount->Active = true; // set account to active
$obAccount->Save(); // save, finish.
/* If we reaching this point, everything works as expected */
echo "<br/><h3> Account was successfully created, now you can login with".
"an POP3 or IMAP-Client </h3>";
}
/* OK, if something went wrong, give us the exact error details */
catch(Exception $e) {
echo "<h4>COM-ERROR: <br />".$e->getMessage()."</h4><br />";
}
}