POST Exchange Mailbox

Create an Exchange mailbox

POST /accounts/{account_number}/exchange/{domain_name}/mailboxes

Parameters

account_number - string

The account number that the Exchange resource belongs to

domain_name - string

The domain name that is associated with the Exchange resource

Request Body

 {
  "owner": {
    "username": "john2",
    "password": "secret2"
  },
  "admin": 0,
  "notes": "some text",
  "recipientLimit": 10,
  "deliverRedirect": "zsds",
  "forwardTo": "asdasd",
  "name": {
    "name": "John Smith",
    "company": "My Company",
    "department": "Sales",
    "title": "President"
  },
  "address": {
    "address": "100 Main St.",
    "city": "Chicago",
    "state": "IL",
    "zip": "60001",
    "country": "US"
  },
  "phones": {
    "businessPhone": "555-555-5501",
    "homePhone": "555-555-5502",
    "fax": "555-555-5503",
    "mobile": "555-555-5504"
  }
}
  

owner - dictionary

-Contains attributes related to the mailbox user

username - string

-The handle of the mailbox that is to be created

Allowed are lower only letters, numbers, underscores, dashes

Cannot use reserved words: "ADMINISTRATOR", "ADMINS", "HELPDESK"

Length 1 to 25

password - string

-The password required to access the new mailbox

Length 8 to 20 , Must not contain only lower case letters,

Must contain letters, should be one word , and Password should have at least one digit

admin - integer

-Whether the mailbox user will have administrative privileges

Allowed values are 0 or 1

notes - string

-User defined textual description

recipientLimit - integer

-Specifies the recipient limit for the mailbox. Allowed values are integers from 1 to 100.

deliverRedirect - string

-Redirect address

forwardTo - string

-Forward address

name - dictionary

name - string

company - string

department - string

title - string

address - dictionary

-Specifies the address details for the mailbox

address - string

city - string

state - string

zip - string

country - string

phones - dictionary

-Specifies phone details for the mailbox

businessPhone - string

homePhone - string

fax - string

mobile - string

Response Codes

200

Success

202

Accepted

404

Non-existent resource

405

Unsupported method

409

Duplicate entry

502

Internal server error

Examples

POST {server_name}/accounts/{account_number}/exchange/{domain_name}/mailboxes

- Request Headers:

   Content-Type:application/json
   Charset=UTF-8
   Authorization:Base64-encoded username & password string

- Request Body:

{
  "owner": {
    "username": "test-username",
    "password": "secret2"
  },
  "admin": 0,
  "notes": "some text",
  "recipientLimit": 10,
  "deliverRedirect": "zsds",
  "forwardTo": "asdasd",
  "name": {
    "name": "John Smith",
    "company": "My Company",
    "department": "Sales",
    "title": "President"
  },
  "address": {
    "address": "100 Main St.",
    "city": "Chicago",
    "state": "IL",
    "zip": "60001",
    "country": "US"
  },
  "phones": {
    "businessPhone": "555-555-5501",
    "homePhone": "555-555-5502",
    "fax": "555-555-5503",
    "mobile": "555-555-5504"
  }
}

- Response: Accepted (202):

{
  "links": [
    {
      "href": "http://{server_name}/accounts/{account_number}/exchange/{domain_name}/mailboxes/", 
      "rel": "self"
    }, 
    {
      "href": "http://{server_name}/orders/{order_id}/action", 
      "rel": "related"
    },
    {
      "href": "http://{server_name}/orders/{order_id}/account/products/{product_id}/services/{newly_created_mailbox_service_id}",
      "rel": "edit"
    }
  ]
 }

- Response when adding an optional mailbox: Success (202):

{
  "total": ["8.00", "USD"], 
  "subtotal": ["8.00", "USD"], 
  "deferredTotal": ["8.00", "USD"], 
  "deferredSubtotal": ["8.00", "USD"], 
  "quotehash": "{quote_id}", 
  "links": [
    {
      "href": "http://{server_name}/accounts/{account_number}/exchange/{domain_name}/mailboxes/", 
      "rel": "self"
    }, 
    {
      "href": "http://{server_name}/orders/{order_id}/action", 
      "rel": "related"
    },
    {
      "href": "http://{server_name}/orders/{order_id}/account/products/{product_id}/services/{newly_created_mailbox_service_id}",
      "rel": "edit"
    }
  ]
}

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- Request Body with Invalid data:

{
  "owner": {
    "username": "(^%*&^*&^)*",
    "password": "weakpass"
  },
  "admin": 0,
  "notes": "",
  "recipientLimit": 10,
  "deliverRedirect": "zsds",
  "forwardTo": "asdasd",
  "name": {
    "name": "John Smith",
    "company": "My Company",
    "department": "Sales",
    "title": "President"
  },
  "address": {
    "address": "100 Main St.",
    "city": "Chicago",
    "state": "IL",
    "zip": "60001",
    "country": "US"
  },
  "phones": {
    "businessPhone": "555-555-5501",
    "homePhone": "555-555-5502",
    "fax": "555-555-5503",
    "mobile": "555-555-5504"
  }
}

- Response: BadRequest (400):

{
 "badRequest": {"message": "POST data error", "code": 400, 
                "details": {"notes": "Required", 
                            "owner.username": "Has invalid characters.Allowed are lower only letters, numbers, underscores, dashes", 
                            "owner.password": "Must not contain only lower case letters"}
               }
}