3.4.1. Purpose

The majority of tasks related to administration of mail accounts can be handled by the mail.exe utility. The following tasks can be performed with its help: creation/update/removal of mail names, setup of preferences for mailboxes, redirects and mail groups. Autoresponder settings can also be controlled with this utility.

3.4.2. Usage

Usage: mail.exe command <mail_name> [options]

Available commands and options:

Command	Parameter	Action
--create or -c	<mail_name>@<domain>	creates a mail account
--update or -u	<mail_name>@<domain>	updates mail account parameters
--remove or -r	<mail_name>@<domain>	removes a mail account
--on	<domain>	enables mail service for a domain
--off	<domain>	disables mail service for a domain
--info or -i	<mail_name>@<domain>	retrieves mail account information
--help or -h		displays help on the utility usage
Option	Parameter	Note
-cp_access	<true|false>	enables control panel access
-mailbox	<true|false>	creates/removes a mailbox
-passwd	<passwd>	sets a mailbox password
-boxpass	<passwd>	an obsolete alias for the "passwd" option (this option may be removed from future releases)
-passwd_type	<plain|crypt>	specifies the type of the mailbox password; ignored if no password is specified
-mbox_quota	<KB>	limits the mailbox quota to the desired amount
-aliases	<add|del>:<name1[,name2]>	adds or deletes mail alias(es) to/from a mail name
-mgroups	<add|del>:<list1[,list2]>	adds or removes a mail name to/from a mail group
-redirect	<true|false>	switches mail redirect on/off
-rediraddr	<addr>	sets redirect to an address (required if redirect is enabled)
-group	<true|false>	switches a mail group on/off
-groupmem	<add|del>:<addr1[,addr2]>	adds/removes address(-es) to/from a mail group
-repo	<add|del>:<file1[,file2]>	adds/removes file to/from the attachments repository
-autorsp	<true|false>	switches all autoresponders on/off
-autoname	<name>	autoresponder name (required for all autoresponder options)
-autostatus	<true|false>	switches on/off autoresponder with the specified name
-autoreq	<subj|body>:<string> or <always>	defines the condition for autoresponder - either to be activated when the specified pattern is encountered in the subject or body, or to respond always
-autosubj	<original|string>	the subject line to be set up in autoresponder ("Re: <incoming subject>") or a custom string.
-auto_replyto	<string>	returns the address that will be set up in the autoresponder messages
-autotext	<string>	autoresponder message text
-autoatch	<add|del>:<file1[,file2]>	adds/removes autoresponder attachment files
-autofrq	<number>	defines the maximum number of responses to a unique e-mail address per day
-autostor	<number>	defines the number of unique addresses to be stored for autoresponder
-autored	<addr>	defines the e-mail address to forward all incoming mail to