Add mailbox automatically

[Scott Russell]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 05:16:12PM -0500, Kervin L. Pierre wrote:
> Just a thought,
> 
> I am working on some PHP scripts to manage mailboxes and I have to use 
> passthough calls to execute cyradm to add mailboxes.
> 
> I'd like to avoid opening a shell from the web for security and 
> performance reasons.
> 

Here's a PHP function that I use to create user mailboxes with. It
could use some clean up but it works for us. Beware line wraps.

function imap_acct_create ($mailbox, $quota="") {
    // creates user.$mailbox in cyrus 2.1.5
    global $imap_error;
    $imap = @imap_open("{localhost:143/imap/notls}", "cyrus", "passwd", OP_HALFOPEN);
    if (!$imap) { 
        $imap_error = imap_last_error(); 
        return FALSE; 
    }
    // create the new top level mailbox
    $ret = @imap_createmailbox($imap, "{localhost}user.".$mailbox);
    if (!$ret) { $imap_error = imap_last_error(); 
        @imap_close($imap);
        return FALSE; 
    }
    // if needed, set the account quota
    if ($quota != "") {
        $ret = @imap_set_quota($imap, "user.".$mailbox, $quota);
        if (!$ret) { $imap_error = imap_last_error(); 
	@imap_close($imap); return FALSE; }
    }
    @imap_close($imap);
    // if we get here everything worked
    return TRUE;
}   

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