How to create mail accounts in bulk using CLI in Plesk for Linux?

Anton Kuznetsov

Updated May 26, 2025 23:10

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The following command can iterate through a list of email addresses and create them using the command-line Mail utility:

Connect to the server via SSH
Create a list of mail addresses to be created with one mail address per line as in the following example:

# cat maillist.txt
jane_doe@example.com
john_doe@example.com
mike_doe@example.com

Note: In this example, maillist.txt is the name of the file containing the mail address list.
Run the following command on the same directory where the file is located. This will iterate the list and create the accounts included in the file:

# for i in `cat maillist.txt`; do plesk bin mail --create $i -mailbox true; done

The output should look like the following:

CONFIG_TEXT: SUCCESS: Creation of mailname 'jane_doe@example.com' complete
SUCCESS: Creation of mailname 'john_doe@example.com' complete
SUCCESS: Creation of mailname 'mike_doe@example.com' complete
Once accounts are created, each email owner will have to set a password at Domains > example.com > Mail > Email Addresses > john_doe@example.com > Password.