How to add multiple email accounts in qmail's
vpopmail with vpasswd via ssh (console) / Little shell script to
add multiple email addresses
I've been assigned the task to add on one of the qmail powered
servers I administrate about 50 email addresses via command
line.
Each email addresses was required to be configured to have the same
mail password.
Adding the email addresses via an interface would be a killing time
consuming task and will probably require at least 1 hour of time to
add the emails with
qmailwebmin, qadmin, qubit or the other
vpopmail qmail web administration interfaces available
nowdays.
To solve the task, I've used a line oner bash shell script which
reads all my 80 emails from a file and adds them with vpopmail's
command line tool
vpasswd on the mail server.
Here is the one liner shell script I've written to solve the
task:
debian:~# while read line; do vadduser $line
Email_Pass_Phrase; done < email_list_file.txt
In above's code I've used the
email_list_file.txt file is a
text file on the server and contains list of all my 50 email
addresses, where each line in the file contains one email. The
Email_Pass_Phrase is actually the password I've set for all
the new email addresses being created with
vpasswd
That's all now the 50 email addresses on the server are created and
I've saved at least one hour of boring repeating actions in the
browser ;)