Attention
This document is applicable to iRedMail-0.9.6 and later releases. If you're running iRedMail-0.9.5-1 or earlier releases, please check tutorial SQL: Bulk create new mail users instead.
iRedMail ships the shell script tools/create_mail_user_SQL.sh
to help you
create new mail user quickly. With some shell scripting trick, it's easy to
create many mail users.
Sample usage:
example.com
with iRedAdmin first.Create a new mail user with the shell script:
Warning
Please always quote the password with single quote.
cd iRedMail-0.9.6/tools/
bash create_mail_user_SQL.sh user1@example.com 'plain_password'
It will print SQL commands used to create this new user, you can save it to a file, then login to SQL server as root user and import this file. for example:
# cd iRedMail-0.9.6/tools/
# bash create_mail_user_SQL.sh user1@example.com 'plain_password' > user.sql
# mysql -uroot -p
sql> USE vmail;
sql> SOURCE user.sql;
# cd iRedMail-0.9.6/tools/
# bash create_mail_user_SQL.sh user1@example.com 'plain_password' > /tmp/user.sql
# su - postgres
$ psql -d vmail
sql> \i output.sql;
Don't forget to remove /tmp/user.sql.
Notes:
PASSWORD_SCHEME
, default is SSHA512
.
BCRYPT
is recommended on FreeBSD and OpenBSD.DEFAULT_QUOTA
, default is
1024
(MB). Use 0
for unlimited quota.domain.ltd/u/s/e/username-20150929
. If you
prefer domain.ltd/username/
, please set MAILDIR_STYLE='normal'
.STORAGE_BASE_DIRECTORY
, default
is /var/vmail/vmail1
.