Adding e-mail addresses to directory

[jennyw]

Hi, everyone,

I'm exploring the feasibility of modifying the global address list from a program (in our case Ruby on Rails). I read on the Wiki that we shouldn't do this through LDAP and that it should be done through the admin tools. Is there any programmatic way to add addresses programatically? These would be aliases, not new accounts (and, in fact, they'd be aliases that point to an account on the system). For example, we might have an account abc@example.com on the Zimbra server. We'd like to be able to add aliases like abc-sales@example.com, abc-marketing@example.com, etc. to the address book (mostly so that users can get to them easily). This mailbox would then be read by another program that would apply some rule based on the To: field.

Thanks!

[mmorse]

adding via CLI would be:
zmprov aaa abc@domain.com abc-sales@domain.com
zmprov aaa abc@domain.com abc-marketing@domain.com

remove:
zmprov raa abc@domain.com abc-sales@domain.com
zmprov raa abc@domain.com abc-marketing@domain.com

-you could also construct it via SOAP...

[jennyw]

SOAP sounds better since our RoR app probably won't be on the same machine as Zimbra (or can the CLI tools be installed on a different machine?). Can you send a pointer? Thanks!

[mmorse]

http://sourceforge.krugle.com/kse/files?project="Zimbra%20Collaboration%20Suite"
search for soap.txt & soap-admin.txt