Problem with automating email forwarder during account creation

[glarkin]

Hi there,

I've starting working with the various custom scripts that are invoked when domain or users are created and destroyed. This is a great feature!

What I'm trying to do is create a forwarder on each new account with the address "postmaster@<domain>". This address will forward to the email address entered on the "Create a User" page.

To do this, I created the script user_create_post.sh and verified that it is called. From what I can see, there is no API for creating an email forwarder yet, so I just use this curl command in my script:

/usr/local/bin/curl -u $username:$passwd -d "action=create&create=Create&domain=$domain&user=$username&email=$email" http://mysubdomain.domain.com:2222/CMD_EMAIL_FORWARDER

This command is invoked correctly, but if I redirect the output of the command to a temp file, I see these messages in it:

Unable to determine Usertype
user.conf needs to be repaired

However, I can run the command manually at the command line after the new account has been created in DA. Is there some kind of race condition where I cannot do certain things through the DA API until the function that has called my script is completely done? Is there any other way to do what I want?

Thank you,
Greg Larkin

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

I'd just sneak behind DA, and go directly to the file:

#!/bin/sh

echo "postmaster: $username" >> /etc/virtual/$domain/aliases

exit 0;

Much simpler

As long as you are using the "post" script, DA should be done with the file.

John

 

[glarkin]

Hi John,

Thanks for the tip, that helped a lot. I just implemented something similar, but I added the postmaster alias to the top of the aliases file. It looked like adding it to the bottom might mess up the catch-all rule, but I could be wrong. Here's the code:


# Save a backup of the aliases
cp -a /etc/virtual/$domain/aliases /etc/virtual/$domain/aliases.bak

# Place the new alias at the top of the file so we don't break the
# catch-all rule.
echo "postmaster: $email" > /etc/virtual/$domain/aliases
cat /etc/virtual/$domain/aliases.bak >> /etc/virtual/$domain/aliases


I checked the list of the forwarders in DA afterward, and the postmaster alias shows up there.

Thanks again,
Greg