API to create/delete forwarder and aliases

[ppetree]

Hi!

cpanel: 11.32.2 (build 25)
exim: 4.77

Ideally, I need to use PHP to programatically create aliases for a forwarded email address.

What I have is dothis@domain.com piped to a php script... this works fine and now I want to create aliases for that email address programatically.

Baring that, I want to create multiple forwarders for that same pipe to php script.

I've downloaded both xml-php class and cpanel-public-phpapi class off of github and read through that, read the online docs and I see no mention anywhere of creating aliases or forwarders.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Pete

[charsleysa]

Using the XMLAPI you can call an API2 function to add an email forwarder.

Email Module Documentation

[philipnewmannz]

Hi Pete,

I came up with this solution to add a forwarder using the cPanel API that is piped to a script.

<?php
include_once "../includes/class/XmlApi_cPanel.php" ; 
$host 		= 'yourhost.com'; 
$user 		= 'username';
$password	= 'password'; 

$xmlapi = new xmlapi($host, $user, $password); 
$xmlapi->password_auth("username", "password"); 

$xmlapi->set_port(2083);

$xmlapi->set_debug(1); 


$p['domain']    = 'yourhost.com'; 
$p['email']     = 'beer';  
$p['fwdopt']    = 'pipe'; 
$p['pipefwd']   = '/home/'.$user.'/public_html/parsingScript.php'; 
#$p['forwarder']	 = 'beer@yourhost.com=|/home/yourhost/public_html/parsingScript.php';

$res = $xmlapi->api2_query($user, 'Email', 'addforward', $p); 
#$res = $xmlapi->api1_query($user, 'Email', 'delforward', $p); 
var_dump($res);  
?>

The problem I have been having is the 'delforward' works nicely if you are deleting another email address but I haven't worked out how to delete items that work with the pipe method... You will note the port has been changed to the cPanal API as it defaults to the WHM one as I don't have access to a WHM as I'm not a reseller.

That's my two cents anyway.

Hope it's helpful