Managing email accounts over the API

Types of mailboxes

In our API, we differentiate between two types of mailboxes:

• E-Mail adresses are used to send and receive emails. They are either associated with a mailbox (that you can connect to using an email client) or with a forwarding address (that forwards all incoming emails to one or more other email addresses).
• Delivery boxes are used to send emails. They are used to send emails from a web application or a script.

Requirements

To manage email accounts, you will need an existing project. You can create a new project using the Creating a project guide.

Create a new email account

To create a new email account, send a POST request to the /v2/projects/{projectID}/mailaddresses endpoint. The request body must contain a JSON object with the following properties:

address required	string <email>
isCatchAll required	boolean
required	object

{

• "address": "user@example.com",
• "isCatchAll": true,
• "mailbox": {

  • "enableSpamProtection": true,
  • "password": "string",
  • "quotaInBytes": -1

  }

}

caution

Take note of the password you set for the email account. You will not be able to retrieve it later.

info

For details please refer to the endpoint documentation for the following endpoint: mail-mailaddress-create

Create a new forwarding address

A forwarding address is an email address that forwards all incoming emails to one or more other email addresses. To create a new forwarding address, send a POST request to the /v2/projects/{projectID}/mailaddresses endpoint. The request body must contain a JSON object with the following properties:

address required	string <email>
forwardAddresses required	Array of strings <email>

{

• "address": "user@example.com",
• "forwardAddresses": [

  • "user@example.com"

  ]

}

Create a new delivery box

A delivery box is an email address that can be used to send emails from a web application or a script. To create a new delivery box, send a POST request to the /v2/projects/{projectID}/deliveryboxes endpoint. The request body must contain a JSON object with the following properties:

• description (string, required): A description for the delivery box. This description will be displayed in the web interface.
• password (string, required): The password for the delivery box. This password will be used to authenticate against the SMTP server.

caution

Take note of the password you set for the delivery box. You will not be able to retrieve it later.

info

For details please refer to the endpoint documentation for the following endpoint: mail-deliverybox-create

Deleting email accounts

To delete an email address or a delivery box, send a DELETE request to the /v2/mailaddresses/{id} or /v2/deliveryboxes/{id} endpoint, respectively. The id parameter must contain the ID of the email address or delivery box you want to delete. No request body is needed.