Any way to create a forward programmatically?

[Donny Bahama]

My wife and I both need to create email aliases occasionally. I have no problem doing it via cPanel, but it's a bit too much for her. I'd like to create a php page so she can just fill in the alias, click a couple check boxes and submit.

Is this possible? If so, how?

[cPanelDavidG]

My wife and I both need to create email aliases occasionally. I have no problem doing it via cPanel, but it's a bit too much for her. I'd like to create a php page so she can just fill in the alias, click a couple check boxes and submit.

Is this possible? If so, how?

To automate the creation of email forwarders, you will need reseller access to the server? Do you have this level of access?

Alternatively, in 11.24, we are introducing the ability to import forwarders and mail accounts via CSV files and Excel spreadsheets. That is an alternative you may wish to use if your server is on 11.24, or wait for until 11.24 propagates to your server.

[rrwh]

I actually worte about this a few weeks ago - see http://forums.cpanel.net/showpost.ph...25&postcount=5

You need root access to the server or a host whom will agree to follow the instructions in the post.

Once you have the file in a place where you can manipulate it, then it is a simple matter to write yourself a bit of php code to make changes to the file.

The alternative is that since I have already done it, I might be willing to share for a small consideration.

Yes, this is one area that is lacking in the API's

[cpanelnick]

My wife and I both need to create email aliases occasionally. I have no problem doing it via cPanel, but it's a bit too much for her. I'd like to create a php page so she can just fill in the alias, click a couple check boxes and submit.

Is this possible? If so, how?

You could use the xml-api /cpanel request. See cpanel.net's documentation section for more information,

[brianoz]

Even easier, if you run under suphp, your PHP scripts have direct write access to the forwarders file stored in /etc/valiases/yourdomain.com. You can just open and edit the file directly, though be very careful not to mess up the formatting.