How to add multiple email accounts

[Pagemakers]

We need to add about 1000 email accounts to a domain. They will be in the format firstname.surname@domain.com with a unique password.

Is there a quick way of doing this - eg some sort of csv file import, or much we enter every single on of them manually?

 

[tmonsen]

I have a small shell script to add user's through the unix api. You will need to upload a file email.txt to the same directory of the script. The email.txt file should have the email address followed by a space or tab, and then the password on each line.

example:
firstname.surname@domain.com password
firstname2.surname@domain.com pass2

You can then run the script sh <yourfilename>.sh

**Note
I am an advanced begginer when it comes to shell scripting I do not claim this script is the easiest/fastest/etc., but it should work. Please use at your own risk. I'm not responsible for your data, server, etc.

***** copy below this line for the script*******
#!/bin/sh

awk '{ print "/usr/local/psa/bin/mail.sh -c " $1 " -cp_access false -mailbox true -passwd " $2}' ./email.txt >> ./setup.sh;

sh setup.sh;

 

[Cye84]

what does setup.sh do?

 

[Pagemakers]

Tmonsen - thanks for your help. When we are ready I'll give it a go.