Export list of aliases and destination

Question asked by John C. Reid - 3/8/2022 at 9:39 AM

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Need a way to export a list of alias emails with their destination email address(es). Have been trying to get various API calls to work ( api/v1/settings/sysadmin/export-users, etc ), but not having any luck. Does this ability exist? If so, can someone point me in the right direction?

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Tony Scholz Replied

3/8/2022 at 12:12 PM

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Hello John,

I did a tst of the API to get a list of Alias for a domain as well as the details for a single alias. You can see below that I was able to get the details.

Is this the information that you are looking for from your Aliases?

Thank you

Tony

Tony Scholz System/Network Administrator SmarterTools Inc. www.smartertools.com

John C. Reid Replied

3/8/2022 at 12:35 PM

Yeah, I think that gets me there. The part I guess I was missing was that it is a two step process and not a single command to list the entire domain's worth of aliases (with targets).

Matthew Leyda Replied

3/8/2022 at 12:59 PM

John,

Have you looked into this SmarterMail Users/Aliases Export v1.6 – Spyriadis Network

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John C. Reid Replied

3/8/2022 at 2:13 PM

Thanks Matthew, but not looking for a program. This is for internal development.

Tony Scholz Replied

3/8/2022 at 3:52 PM

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Hello John,

You're welcome, if yo have any more questions please let me know. Thank you

Tony Scholz System/Network Administrator SmarterTools Inc. www.smartertools.com

John C. Reid Replied

3/18/2022 at 2:59 PM

Trying to take this solution to the next level and allow for selecting the domain on a user input. From what I see I can only retrieve the list as a domain admin. With over 300 domains, I can't store all the user/passwords for each domain's domain admin off line, so I need to retrieve the one I need with the API.

From what I see in the docs, I would need to use:

https://domain.com/api/v1/settings/sysadmin/user/domainadmin@'.$searchDomain

However, the password is not in the returned data - even though the API Docs say it should be. Help!

Zach Sylvester Replied

3/21/2022 at 3:25 PM

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Hello John,

Thanks for the follow-up. You wouldn't have to store the passwords you could just use our impersonation feature to impersonate the domain admins. Here is an example that I made in python.

def impersonate_user(access_info, email):
    global url
    authurl = url + "/api/v1/settings/domain/impersonate-user/"+ email # this is the url of the impersonate user function this is adding the email address of the user who you want to impersonate 
    data = requests.post(authurl, headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + access_info['accessToken']}) # this posts the access token for auth as well as the authurl varable which in turns gives it the email that you want to impeprsonate
    ImpersonatedUser_Token = data.json()['impersonateAccessToken'] # this is the impersonated user access token
    ImpersonatedUser_exp = data.json()['impersonateAccessTokenExpiration'] # this is the impersonated user expiration date for the access token.
    data = {'impersonateAccessToken': ImpersonatedUser_Token, 'impersonateAccessTokenExpiration': ImpersonatedUser_exp} # this is the impersonated user token and expiration date
    return data # returns the impersonate access token

I was having some trouble making this image readable you could right-click and download it to see it in a bigger view.

Please let me know if this helps.

Kind Regards,

Zach Sylvester Software Developer SmarterTools Inc. www.smartertools.com

John C. Reid Replied

3/21/2022 at 3:28 PM

Thanks. I will try to wrap my head around this. What about the issue that the API says you can retrieve the password but it doesn't?

Zach Sylvester Replied

3/21/2022 at 3:41 PM

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Hey John,

I will have to do some testing for that issue. I see that you have support so I'm going to go ahead and open a ticket for you so we can investigate.

Kind regards,

Zach Sylvester Software Developer SmarterTools Inc. www.smartertools.com

John C. Reid Replied

3/22/2022 at 8:29 AM

Thanks on both points. The impersonating was just what I needed to get our scripts to work. I can now list all the aliases in a domain along with what they are pointing to.

Looking forward to the password bit.

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