Simple command line program to manage OVH shared hosting email accounts.
I created this program because when I changed hosting to OVH I needed to create like 80 mailboxes and I didn't want to do it manually.
Basically you can use the provided command line program as usual after you provided the application_key, the application_secret and the domain in the ovh.conf file (you can create them here), just check the help:
python ovh_emails.py -h
or even
chmod u+x ovh_emails.py
./ovh_emails.py -h
PS: If you need to send notifications to a particular email address you have also to fill the [smtp] config file entries.
The CLI provides three basic commands
- Listing Entries
ovh_emails.py list [--ugly]
you can also provide a --ugly option to avoid the nice tables formatting
- Adding Entries
ovh_emails.py add (<address> [--pswd=<password>][--description=<description>] [--notify <notifyEmail>] | --file <filename> [--notify])
The nice thing is that you can process a file that is formatted as 4 field csv :
['Account Name'*,'Description','Password','Notification Email']
e.g.
['rdb@domain.com', 'A sample mailbox','','rdb@gmail.com']
the only field needed is Account Name. If Password is not filled up the program auto-calculates it. Notification Email is only needed if the --notify flag is used.
- Removing Entries
ovh_mails.py remove (<address> | --file <filename>)
Even here you can use the same csv formatting if setting --filename flag. In this case the only field used is Account Name
When you set the flag -n the script sends via the SMTP settings you configured in ovh.conf a mail using the mail.template.
An example is reported in the mail.template.example. Basically you have to provide a text, where the placheholders {username} and {password} are replaced with the true values