POST Exchange Email Alias

Create an Email Alias

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

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

 {
    "emailalias" : {
          "username": "john",
	  "emailForward": "johnjello@domainname.com"
  }
}
  

username - string

- Username of email address. Allowed are only letters, numbers, underscores, dashes and nonconsecutive dots. Dots cannot be at the beginning or the end of the value. From 1 to 52 characters long.

emailForward - string

- Target email address. Must be a valid email address. The domain-name of the address must be the same as the domain-name associated with the Exchange resource.

Expected Response Codes

201

Created

400

External forward; Email forwarding to the same address; Validation error

405

Unsupported method

409

Username already exists

502

Internal server error

Examples

POST {server_name}/accounts/account300021/exchange/ng-test-hwus-120120b.com/emailAliases

- Request Headers:

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

- Request Body:

 {
    "emailalias" : {
          "username": "john",
	  "emailForward": "johnjello@ng-test-hwus-120120b.com"
  }
}
  

- Response: Created (201):

Server : nginx/0.6.32
Date : Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:51:29 GMT
Connection : keep-alive
Location : http://coreapi01.ote.chicago.hostway:8098/accounts/popescu300021/exchange/ng-test-hwus-petre-120120b.com/emailAliases/john/
Content-Length : 0

• There will be a Location in the response header pointing to the newly created resource.

---

- Request Body with Invalid data:

 {
   "emailalias": {
         "username": "new_alias",
         "emailForward": "new_alias@ng-test-hwus-petre-120120b.com"
   }
}
  

- Response: BadRequest (400):

 {
   "computeFault": {
         "message": "Email forwarding to the same address is not allowed",
         "code": 400, "details": ""
   }
}