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How to create an email account in Plesk

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Kuzma Ivanov
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Question

How to create and manage an email account in Plesk?

Answer

 

Creating an email account via Plesk

 

  1. Log in to Plesk.

  2. Go to Domains > example.com > Email Addresses and click Create Email Address.

    Note: Email Addresses and Email Settings will be hidden in domain dashboard, if the mail management is disabled server-wide.

  3. Fill in the fields and click OK.

    • Leave the Mailbox checkbox selected. Clear this checkbox if it is needed to use this email address as a mail forwarder, which will forward all incoming mail to another address.


    Screenshot_2020-01-08_Create_Email_Address_-_Plesk_Onyx_17_8_11.png

 

Creating an email account via a command-line interface

 

  1. Connect to a Plesk server via SSH (Linux) / RDP (Windows Server).

  2. To create an email account, run the following command (on Windows Server, use a command prompt as an Administrator):

    # plesk bin mail --create john_doe@example.com -passwd "your_password" -mailbox true

  3. To get the list of mail accounts, run the following command:

    # plesk bin mail --list

     

    To learn more about the 'plesk bin mail' utility options, refer to these Plesk Documentation pages:

 

Creating an email account via REST API

 

Note: Replace 203.0.113.2 and ce8b9a38-4410-XXX with the required server IP address and API key from step 2 in exactly the same way as all the
custom settings in the commands below.

Note: In step 2, the API key should be generated from the Plesk server where the request for creating an email account is run.

  1. Connect to a Plesk server via SSH (Linux) / RDP (Windows Server).

  2. Generate a API key:

    # curl -k -X POST --user admin:"<password>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -d"{}" "https://203.0.113.2:8443/api/v2/auth/keys"

    or

    # plesk bin secret_key -c -ip-address 203.0.113.2

  3. Create an email account via REST API:

    # curl -k -X POST -H "X-API-Key: ce8b9a38-4410-XXX" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" "https://203.0.113.2:8443/api/v2/cli/mail/call" -d '{ "params": ["--create", "jdoe@example.com", "-passwd", "<password>", "-mailbox", "true"]}'

     

    To learn more about REST API, refer to these Plesk Documentation pages:

 

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    Mary Franklin

    help, I try use method Creating an email account via REST API

    i got :

    curl: option -mailbox,: expected a proper numerical parameter

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    Kuzma Ivanov

    Hi Mary Franklin!

    I have just tested the solution provided under "Creating an email account via REST API" and it works fine.

    Make sure that the syntax if valid in your commands/code.

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    Mary Franklin

    Hi Kuzma Ivanov,

    Thanks for replying!

    I got feedback of 401 (Unauthorized)...

    I will check the doc about REST API

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