Setting some configuration for all email accounts

[Arvy]

Hello,

I need to create 271 email accounts in a new cPanel account. I'll use /scripts/addpop in a script to do this.

But I want to change, for all email accounts, some extra configuration:

- Disable Plus Addressing
- Set "Open my inbox when I log in" by default, to user go directly to webmail (server has only Roundcube)
- (optional) Set default Roundcube auto-check time from 1 to 3 minutes

I can do scripts to change this, but I need to know where (files) to edit and set this.

Thanks a lot!

 

[cPanelLauren]

- Disable Plus Addressing

For plus addressing - you can't disable the actual plus addressing itself but you can disable automatic folder creation which will send emails sent to plus addresses to the INBOX

Set "Open my inbox when I log in" by default, to user go directly to webmail (server has only Roundcube)

I answered this in another thread this morning I believe you commented on: Disable "Webmail Home" icon in webmail toolbar

(optional) Set default Roundcube auto-check time from 1 to 3 minutes

Can you explain what you mean by this?

 

[rakshitha]

Thanks for your post, surely this is very helpful for creating the email ids. Keep updating about this.
UNIX Operating System is the best for your pc.

 

[Arvy]

Hello @cPanelLauren

This "/home/$username/.cpanel/nvdata/user@domain_tld_default_webmail_app" resolve the "Open my inbox when I log in" for me. Thanks.

About "Automatically Create Folders for Plus Addressing", you're right, I want to disable this using a script for all 271 accounts.

About Roundcube, 1 minute is the default time to check for new email. I want to change to 3 minutes, using a script too, in all 271 email accounts.

Thanks

 

[cPanelLauren]

About "Automatically Create Folders for Plus Addressing", you're right, I want to disable this using a script for all 271 accounts.

@Arvy the UAPI Function here should disable this for you: https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/DD/UAPI+Functions+-+Email::disable_mailbox_autocreate
You'd need to create a loop to loop through all the accounts on the server

About Roundcube, 1 minute is the default time to check for new email. I want to change to 3 minutes, using a script too, in all 271 email accounts.

There's no UAPI function for webmail changes such as this. So, this is listed in the following files:

[root@server config]# grep -ir refresh_interval /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/
/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/default.inc.php.orig:// Minimal value of user's 'refresh_interval' setting (in seconds)
/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/default.inc.php.orig:$config['min_refresh_interval'] = 60;
/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/default.inc.php.orig:$config['refresh_interval'] = 60;
/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/config.inc.php:// Minimal value of user's 'refresh_interval' setting (in seconds)
/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/config.inc.php:$config['min_refresh_interval'] = 60;
/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/config.inc.php:$config['refresh_interval'] = 60;
/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/defaults.inc.php:// Minimal value of user's 'refresh_interval' setting (in seconds)
/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/defaults.inc.php:$config['min_refresh_interval'] = 60;
/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/defaults.inc.php:$config['refresh_interval'] = 60;

But I need to point out that customizations made to roundcube like this aren't supported by cPanel and I can't guarantee that changes made in any of these files will remain once the file is updated with a cPanel update.

You might also want to look at roundcube's site for making changes roundcube/roundcubemail

 

[Arvy]

Hello @cPanelLauren,

perfect, the UAPI resolves. The 1->3 minutes in Roundcube is not so important.

Thanks for your help!

 

[cPanelLauren]

Awesome!! I'm happy to hear this news

Thanks for letting us know!

 

[Gino Viroli]

This "/home/$username/.cpanel/nvdata/user@domain_tld_default_webmail_app" resolve the "Open my inbox when I log in" for me. Thanks.

The file name is wrong/old.

Now cPanel uses this file name:

"/home/$username/.cpanel/nvdata/[email protected]_default_webmail_app"

It's ...@domain.tld... (and not ...@domain_tld...)

 

[nsgnet]

In case of someone consider this useful, I've created a script to disable on all email accounts the functionality "Automatically Create Folders for Plus Addressing". I've tried to find a better way searching through the forum, but couldn't find it. I didn't spend much time to parse the output in a nice format.
Although I would have seemed normal to have this functionality implemented in Whm and the option to allow you to set the default value of "Automatically Create Folders for Plus Addressing" to new accounts, but maybe the impact isn't known to everyone right now.

#!/bin/bash

function list_user_mailboxes() {
    uapi --user="${1}" Email list_pops 2>/dev/null | grep 'email:' 2>/dev/null | awk -F': ' '{print $2}'
}

function disable_bulk_mailbox_autocreate() {
    for user in $(users); do
        mailboxes=$(list_user_mailboxes ${user})
        for email in ${mailboxes}; do
            uapi --user="$user" Email disable_mailbox_autocreate email="$email"
        done
    done
}

function users() {
    whmapi1 list_users | grep '\ - ' | awk -F'- ' '{print $2}'
}

disable_bulk_mailbox_autocreate