Latest revision as of 13:36, 30 May 2016

PUT accounts/{account}/email/{domain}/usernames/{mailboxName}/mailbox

Creates or updates a mailbox for specified account and domain. The mailbox quota is determined by the E-mail domain product specification.

Request

PUT accounts/{account}/email/{domain}/usernames/{mailboxName}/mailbox

URI Parameters

account - string

domain - string

mailboxName - string

The mailbox. String should meet the regexp [a-zA-Z0-9._-]+

Request Headers

Authorization - HTTP Authorization header [1]

The Authentication credentials of the client application.

Content-Type

Required. Set this header to application/json; charset=UTF-8

Request Body

{
    "password": "{password}", 
    "master": {master},
    "quota": {quota},
    "type": {type},
    "username": {username}
}
 

Parameters

password - string (Required)

The password. The password should be at least 8 characters long, a mix of numbers, symbols and mixed-case letters. It should not begin with "pass", "123", "abc", should not contain the second-level domain name of the service, should not contain the username of the mailbox or start with its first 3 characters. There is a restriction using the same password more than once.

Password validation rules:

Password must not be used more than once

Minimum length 8

Maximum length 128

Should have at least one digit

Should have at least one capital letter

Should have at least one lower case letter

Should contain at least one special character (any character other than lower or uppercase letters, digits and underscore "_" is considered special character)

Should not start with the phrase 'pass' case-insensitively

Should not start with 'abc' case-insensitively

Should not start with 123

Must not contain second-level domain, username or start with the first 3 letters from the username

master - boolean

Describes if this is a master account.

quota - int

Quota value in MB. If not provided default quota for OpenXchange type is set

type - string

OpenXchange account type. Supported values can be obtained from the webmailNames API endpoint. If not provided - standard is default.

If current mailbox qty is more than the allowed value for specific OpenXchange account type, the response will be 400 Bad Request

username - string

The mailbox. String should meet the regexp [a-zA-Z0-9._-]+

Should be used when updating mailbox only

Response

Status Code

201 Created

Success

204 No Content

Success

400 Bad Request

The format of the request body is invalid or the username does not meet the requirements.

401 Unauthorized

The supplied credentials are invalid or do not provide permissions for this operation.

404 Not Found

The domain name does not exist.

409 Conflict

Mailbox already exists.

Examples

Trying to create mailbox without a password

Request

PUT /accounts/test-account123/email/test.com/usernames/john.smith/mailbox

{"master": false}
 

Response

400 Bad Request

{"password":"Required"}
 

Trying to create mailbox with a not valid password

Request

PUT /accounts/test-account123/email/test.com/usernames/john.smith/mailbox

{"password": "abc1234", "master": true}
 

Response

400 Bad Request

{"password":"Required"}
 

Trying to create mailbox with invalid quota value(less or equal to 0)

Request

PUT /accounts/test-account123/email/test.com/usernames/john.smith/mailbox

{"password: "test_password1", "quota": 0}
 

Response

400 Bad Request

{"computeFault":"Quota must be greater than 0"}
 

Trying to create mailbox when mailbox qty for OX type is exceeded

Request

PUT /accounts/test-account123/email/test.com/usernames/john.smith/mailbox

{"password: "test_password1", "type": "activesync"}
 

Response

400 Bad Request

{"computeFault":"Number of mailboxes exceeded"}
 

Create mailbox

Request

PUT /accounts/test-account123/email/test.com/usernames/john.smith/mailbox

{"password": "pWord123$", "master": true}
 

Response

201 Created
 

Update mailbox password

Request

PUT /accounts/test-account123/email/test.com/usernames/john.smith/mailbox

{"password": "!q2w3e4R"}
 

Response

204 No Content
 

Trying to update mailbox password with already used one

Request

PUT /accounts/test-account123/email/test.com/usernames/john.smith2/mailbox

{"password": "pWord123$"}
 

Response

400 Bad Request
 

Update mailbox name

Request

PUT /accounts/test-account123/email/test.com/usernames/john.smith/mailbox

{"username": "john.smith2"}
 

Response

204 No Content
 

Update mailbox using an existing name

Request

PUT /accounts/test-account123/email/test.com/usernames/john.smith/mailbox

{"username": "jack.smith"}
 

Response

400 Bad Request
 

Create mailbox with specified quota

Request

PUT /accounts/test-account123/email/test.com/usernames/john.smith2/mailbox

{"password": "pword1234", "quota": 70}
 

Response

201 Created
 

Update existing mailbox quota

Request

PUT /accounts/test-account123/email/test.com/usernames/john.smith2/mailbox

{"quota": 85}
 

Response

204 No Content
 

See also

• Email API