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116 | Developer’s Guide EPiServer Community 3.1
StarCommunity.Modules.Webmail is described by clicking on their respective names. Make sure you also add the
mentioned assemblies as references, as mentioned in section 1.1.1.
using StarCommunity.Core;
using StarCommunity.Core.Modules.Security;
using StarCommunity.Modules.Webmail;
Creating the Account
To create the account, we get the User for which the account is to be created, and then call the AddMailAccount
method in the WebmailHandler, specifying the local part of the address (the part before the “@” sign) to be associated
with the new account. Optionally you can also supply a Domain. If no domain is supplied, the one set in the
configuration file is used as the default.
Domain domain = WebmailHandler.GetDomainByDomainName("my.domain");
IUser user = (IUser)StarCommunitySystem.
CurrentContext.DefaultSecurity.GetUser(17);
WebmailHandler.AddMailAccount(user, "address.part", domain);
The account is now created on the mail server, and incoming messages to this address will be accepted from this point
on.
It is important to note that the local part of the address has to be unique; it is therefore a good idea to think of some
means of making sure that collisions will not occur. For instance, the EPiServer Community username may be used (as
that is known to be unique), provided that it does not contain any illegal characters.
2.28.3 Disabling, Reactivating and Permanently Removing Accounts
It may be of interest to disable an account for different reasons or to remove an account entirely.
For instance, the mail account may be a premium service, which should be disabled if the user stops paying. Another
example may be a misbehaving user that should have their account removed.
Keep in mind that when a EPiServer Community user is soft-removed, reactivated or permanently removed, these
changes also reflect on the user’s mail account automatically, if there is one.
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