Mail-in-a-box-as-a-Service

hadifarnoud · May 18, 2015, 11:33am

we are a SaaS site builder and for our customers we need to provide email service with their own domain names.

Most of the open source mail servers and tutorials are for having a server for one custom domain. we need to have the ability to add more domains and users on the fly.

Is this something Mail-in-a-Box can do? if so, how can we sync the logins and add users/domains with an API?

JoshData · May 18, 2015, 11:53am

Yes.

The users API isn’t documented but you can see how it works from this client:

github.com

mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/blob/master/tools/mail.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import sys, getpass, urllib.request, urllib.error, json, re

def mgmt(cmd, data=None, is_json=False):
	# The base URL for the management daemon. (Listens on IPv4 only.)
	mgmt_uri = 'http://127.0.0.1:10222'

	setup_key_auth(mgmt_uri)

	req = urllib.request.Request(mgmt_uri + cmd, urllib.parse.urlencode(data).encode("utf8") if data else None)
	try:
		response = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
	except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
		if e.code == 401:
			try:
				print(e.read().decode("utf8"))
			except:
				pass
			print("The management daemon refused access. The API key file may be out of sync. Try 'service mailinabox restart'.", file=sys.stderr)

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If you get to actually doing this, you’ll want to also see the Custom DNS API examples which are documented inside the control panel (after you set up a box).

hadifarnoud · May 23, 2015, 8:56am

I’m not python literate and this code doesn’t have too many comments to help. Is there any chance of getting docs soon?

JoshData · May 23, 2015, 9:54pm

Probably not…