how to creat mail account with php ?

[muratak18]

i have linux server and qmail installed. i want to creat mail account with php. i searched over the net but couldnt anything. Is there a way to creat mail account without plesk panel?

 

[Monica@]

What do you mean "create mail account with PHP"? Do you want to create the mailbox from the command line? If yes, Plesk has the command line utilities, try
/usr/local/psa/bin/mail (use with --help to get the usage info).
To get the info about how to create mail account without plesk it's better to read the qmail manual
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html

 

[muratak18]

i have a registeration form. when users sign up , php will creat a mail account for that username like [email protected] . i dont know php can do this but i need to execute qmail and creat new mail account. how can i do this ?

thanks...

 

[Monica@]

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail utility can create the mail account. Insert its execution with necessary parameters in the code.

 

[muratak18]

thank you very much monica for your help i will try it.

 

[Blackbit@]

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Originally posted by muratak18
i have a registeration form. when users sign up , php will creat a mail account for that username like [email protected] . i dont know php can do this but i need to execute qmail and creat new mail account. how can i do this ?

thanks...

Watch out, that this form is not accessible for spammers/ hackers. ;-)

But anyway, it could be done like this (with activating DrWeb and SpamAssassin). I've used such commands in PHP-CLI:

exec ("/usr/local/psa/bin/mail.sh --create \"".$ACCOUNT."\" -passwd \"".$PASSWD."\" -antivirus in -manage-drweb true -manage-spamfilter true -mailbox true");

$ACCOUNT should contain the full email-adress with domain.

 

[muratak18]

Thank you Blackbit for the php code.

i have a question :

i executed the code with putty and it worked but i tried with php nothing happened and no errors. what am i doing wrong ?

i dont know much about linux command.

thank you again

 

[Blackbit@]

On some servers Apache PHP doesn't allow some commands wich can be security holes, like allowing commands on your shell.

Check your PHP-Setup in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini for this entry: disable_functions.
Maybe exec is deactivated by being listet there.

Also it might be that your PHP can't execute that target script "/usr/local/psa/bin/mail.sh". Check the execution rights. Maybe it helps to allow the group .www the execution of it:

Execute this on your SSH-Shell:

chown .www /usr/local/psa/bin/mail.sh && chmod g+x /usr/local/psa/bin/mail.sh

But remember, this can be a security problem.

Also you can find some information about this in your Apache log.

 

[Blackbit@]

Another idea:

To log what happens by executing the mail-creation with this modification:

exec ("/usr/local/psa/bin/mail.sh --create \"".$ACCOUNT."\" -passwd \"".$PASSWD."\" -manage-spamfilter true -mailbox true 2&> creation.log");

Which writes all the output of mail.sh into the file creation.log. Look at this after trying to create an account.