Add alias using API and PowerShell

1

I’m trying to add a number of aliases to an account using the API and PowerShell.
The PowerShell Code is:

$aliaslist=get-content sample.txt

$u="admin@example.com"
$p="password"
$both="$($u):$($p)"
$encodedcreds=[System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($both))
$basicAuthValue="Basic $encodedCreds"

$Headers=@{
        Authorization=$basicAuthValue
}

$a=Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://box.example.com/admin/mail/aliases?format=json -Headers $Headers
$a.aliases

$alias_url="https://box.example.com/admin/mail/aliases/add"

foreach ($alias in $aliaslist)
{
    $alias=$alias+"@example.com"
    write-output $alias
    $header=@{
        "Authorization"="$basicAuthValue"
        "address"="$alias"
        "forwards_to"="user@example.com"
        "permitted_senders"="user@example.com"
        "update_if_exists"="0"

    }
        write-output $header
    $AliasResponse=Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://box.example.com/admin/mail/aliases/add -Method Post -Headers $header
    write-output $AliasResponse
}

sample.txt contains only 2 alias on different lines, eg:

alias1
alias2

The script does the username / password thing and gets a list of current aliases (this tells me my auth seems to be working). It fails to set the alias however. The error it returns is “No email address provided”

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When i output the actual headers I send, permitted_senders, forwards_to are correct and the address is correct.

alias1@example.com

Key   : permitted_senders
Value : user@example.com
Name  : permitted_senders

Key   : Authorization
Value : Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Name  : Authorization

Key   : update_if_exists
Value : 0
Name  : update_if_exists

Key   : address
Value : alias1@example.com
Name  : address

Key   : forwards_to
Value : user@example.com
Name  : forwards_to

I’m not sure what I’m missing here?

2

I found what was wrong, I needed to pass the address in the body as well
So the foreach loop looks like:

foreach ($alias in $aliaslist)
{
    $alias=$alias+"@example.com"
    write-output $alias
    $header=@{
        "Authorization"="$basicAuthValue"
        "address"="$alias"
        "forwards_to"="user@example.com"
        "permitted_senders"="user@example.com"
        "update_if_exists"="0"

    }
    $parambody=@{
            "address"="$alias"
            "forwards_to"="example.com"
    }
        write-output $header
    $AliasResponse=Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://box.example.com/admin/mail/aliases/add -Method Post -Headers $header -Body $parambody
    write-output $AliasResponse
}