email

Integration

OpenSRS offers two methods to create and maintain email accounts:

  1. The web-based Mail Administration Center (MAC)
  2. The automated Account Provisioning Protocol (APP)

Mail Administration Center

The Mail Administration Center (MAC) is a web-based interface for administering OpenSRS hosted email domains.

The MAC gives customers complete control over their domains, workgroups, mailboxes, administrators, and group aliases. If the customer's domain has relatively few mailboxes, the MAC may be the only administration tool that they will need. For larger domains it is a powerful tool for support staff to perform basic maintenance functions, such as password resets.

Account Provisioning Protocol

The Account Provisioning Protocol (APP) is an API protocol that enables real-time automated provisioning of the OpenSRS Email Service via a secure Internet connection. The APP interface automates the creation and management of domains and mailboxes on the OpenSRS Email Service.

Common uses of the APP include: developing custom sign-up pages, or tying into an existing provisioning architecture, where the OpenSRS provisioning database mirrors all provisioning events in real time.

If customers wish to collect demographic data during the webmail sign-up and registration process, they may use the APP to create a custom sign-up page that will interact with OpenSRS databases.

Use of the APP requires custom development. Documentation, including source code examples in Perl, is available. If customers require further programming assistance, OpenSRS Professional Services is available to assist. A detailed developer's guide for the APP is provided.