Mercury mail and php email creation script - php

Question

I need help creating a script or program that can add users to my mercury mail server when they sign up on a form. I'm using a basic php post form, it does create all the necessary files to run the account but when I open mercury mail the new user account has not been added to the accounts list. And the new account cannot sign in.
Please assist me in creating a client email signup script or program so that my clients can easily create an email on my server for free.
Link to the form code: http://pastebin.com/bEtv4eck
Link to the php post code: http://pastebin.com/rwBJatap
P.S. I have the script working to where it can create the new user and everything, but it won't allow a login unless the email server is restarted. Any way to fix this?

Answer 1

Try using the RELOAD USERS after making the changes to the pmail.usr and mail, directories.

Answer 2

You need to also add user in the PMAIL.USR file
Try
const MERCURY_PATH = 'C:\Apache\xampp\MercuryMail';
$userFile = MERCURY_PATH . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . "PMAIL.USR";
$mailDir = MERCURY_PATH . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . "MAIL";
$newName = "Baba Konko";
$newUsername = "baba";
$newPassword = "pass";
$host = "localhost";
if (! is_writeable ( $userFile )) {
die ( "You don't have permission to Create new User" );
}
if (! is_writeable ( $mailDir )) {
die ( "You don't have permission to add mail folder" );
}
// Check if user exist
if (is_file ( $userFile )) {
$users = file ( $userFile );
foreach ( $users as $user ) {
list ( $status, $username, $name ) = explode ( ";", strtolower ( $user ) );
if (strtolower ( $newUsername ) == $username) {
die ( "User Already Exist" );
}
}
}
$userData = "U;$newUsername;$newName";
$fp = fopen ( $userFile, "a" );
if ($fp) {
fwrite ( $fp, $userData . chr ( 10 ) );
fclose ( $fp );
}
$folder = $mailDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $newUsername;
if (! mkdir ( $folder )) {
die ( "Error Creating Folder" );
}
$pm = '# Mercury/32 User Information File' . chr ( 10 );
$pm .= 'POP3_access: ' . $newPassword . chr ( 10 );
$pm .= 'APOP_secret: ' . $newPassword . chr ( 10 );
$pmFile = $folder . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'PASSWD.PM';
file_put_contents ( $pmFile, $pm );