Managing Mail

Operator: <mail>

XML Schema: mail_input.xsd, mail_output.xsd, plesk_mailname.xsd

Plesk version: Plesk 7.5.4 for UNIX and later | Plesk 8.1 for Windows and later

XML API version: 1.3.5.0 and higher

Plesk user: Administrator, customer

Description

The mail operator allows performing operations on mail service and mail accounts on a particular site.

The mail service settings specify whether the Webmail application is turned on for a particular site. These settings also specify the mail service behaviour when an incoming message is addressed to a non-existent user.

Mail user is the less privileged Plesk user. Creating Plesk mail user is equivalent to creating a special mail account on the specified site. This operation is allowed to Administrator and customers.

Mail account presents a collection of settings and lists of various objects. A mail account is created on a certain site and remains associated with this site during its lifetime. All objects created within the mail account (autoresponders, redirects, files, etc.) share the disk space of the site that owns this mail account.

Mail accounts are uniquely identified by name/ID of the parent site and by mail user name.

Mail user settings specify the following:

For more details, refer to the Mail Service Settings and Mail User Account Settings sections.

 

Supported operations

 

Next in this section:

Mail Service Preferences

Mail Account Settings

Available Filters

Creating Mail Accounts

Modifying Mail Account Settings

Getting Mail Account Settings

Deleting Mail Accounts

Enabling/Disabling Mail Service on Domain

Setting Mail Service Preferences

Getting Mail Service Preferences

Renaming Mail Accounts

Cleaning Mail Queue