Automatic Creation of E-mail Accounts

[drewtemp]

I've tried the posted scripts here to create an e-mail account within cPanel but none of them work for me. The server is running cPanel Build 8.8.0-RELEASE 10 and I don't know if this will help out any, but in the left information section (in the x theme), it says "cPanel Pro 0.9.9.2 (RC8)". Is there any code that could be useful? I've tried the following:

<?php
$authstr = "$cpaneluser:$cpanelpass";
$pass = base64_encode($authstr);
$in = "GET /frontend/x/mail/doaddpop.html?email=$acct&domain=$domain&password=$mpassword&quota=$meg\r\n HTTP/1.0\r\nAuthorization: Basic $pass \r\n";
$socket = fsockopen($host,2082);
fputs($socket,$in);
fclose($socket);
?>

[Jemshi]

try the search button on the forum. I remember someone discussing this earlier.

[drewtemp]

It's OK. I figured it out myself. I did a function where it calls the page on the server to create it instead of doing the socket connection. Thanks anyway, I guess I should have posted it earlier. I have it set up on http://www.drewtemp.com Take a look if you please and you can sign up for an e-mail account at drewtemp.com or rapocity.us

[Jemshi]

congrats !

:-)

[MrStatic]

why not post the working code?

[dinek]

That would be nice

[drewtemp]

Here is the code :

<?php
function create_acct($acct, $domain, $meg, $mpassword, $cpaneluser, $cpanelpass) {
    $o = "http://$cpaneluser:$cpanelpass@$domain:2082/frontend/x/mail/doaddpop.html?email=$acct&domain=$domain&password=$mpassword&quota=$meg";
    $tester = @file($o);
}

function remove_acct($acct, $domain, $cpaneluser, $cpanelpass) {
    $o = "http://$cpaneluser:$cpanelpass@$domain:2082/frontend/x/mail/realdelpop.html?email=$acct&domain=$domain";
    $tester = @file($o);
}
?>

Replace "x" with the theme you are using for cPanel.

[dinek]

hmmmm... a question...

Will that work with the ne IE fix?? As far as I know http://userasswd@domain.com:2082/..... doesn't work anymore (at least after updating iE). Or am I wrong?

Thank BTW
D.

[drewtemp]

Doesn't open through IE. Opens that file through the server-side and not on the client side.

[asmithjr]

This worked for me! New IE does not matter

[MrStatic]

Okay I went to your site and borrowed your form and im gonna try this out but would I just save the php part as a php file then
<form method="post" action="makemail.php?action=make_email">
?

[drewtemp]

I recommend you do an activation for a user to validate his/her account. If you do not validate it, it could attract spammers and then your domain name will become in people's "Junk Mail" folder. Once the form is submitted, send it to a page that will insert a certain get that is md5 encrypted and use that as a key. I run a cron every day about about 3:00am CST so if the user has not yet activated their account in 2 days, then it will be removed from the database and they will have to verify it again. On the page that does the activation, do it where it will update you "active" field in the database to a "1" and everything. I will upload a script on my site for download some time so you can download it once I do that. Thanks for all of your responses. You may use this code freely all you want, it was very simple and is easier than doing the socket connection.

[quasiman]

I would really appreciate a download of this!! I tried to use your script, but I'm not sure exactly how to implement it...it looks like there's two scripts there; one for adding an account, one for removing the account. So how would I use a form to post to only one of those?

[Roy@ENHOST]

I saw this on your site:
If there is numerous e-mails coming from your account, your account will be removed without warning.

Did you have a script to detect that?
If you do that is real neat.

Anyway there was an account activation error when I tried to activate my account:

Parse error: parse error in /home/drewtemp/public_html/modules/Email/activate.php on line 22

Originally posted by drewtemp
It's OK. I figured it out myself. I did a function where it calls the page on the server to create it instead of doing the socket connection. Thanks anyway, I guess I should have posted it earlier. I have it set up on http://www.drewtemp.com Take a look if you please and you can sign up for an e-mail account at drewtemp.com or rapocity.us