I have a shared hosting account (cPanel, with SSH), and I want to programmatically add e-mail accounts that can receive e-mails and then be checked via POP3. I don't care about webmail, spam protection, outgoing mail, or anything else. I just want to add an account, then put ftp.domain.com as the POP3 server in Outlook/Thunderbird/whatever with the account's username and password and to have it get e-mails sent to user@domain.com.

So, I assume that this is done by system calls. As far as I know, I need to do:

Adduser username -g mail
Passwd username password

Is this all? Should I then be able to send e-mails to username@domain.com and get e-mails in a client? Since it's a shared host, do I somehow need to compensate for that? (Will the e-mails sent to my domain end up at the right users? Are the users created server-wide, or just from my account?) Will this work with the existing daemon?

Thanks in advance.

BTW: Supposedly I could also hack a cPanel call, but this way is cooler. :) And I know that I shouldn't be doing this on a shared account, but I'm just playing around.

In reply to Programmatically Adding E-Mail Accounts by rjahrman

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