TSMADump is a command-line utility that lets you retrieve information about domains, users, auto-responders, and aliases from a SmarterMail server. It outputs plain text files that are perfect for use in batch files.
Click here to download TSMADump.zip.
Note that you need to have Microsoft .NET 2.0 installed to run TSMADUMP.EXE. All SmarterMail servers already have this installed because SmarterMail needs it to. If you want to run TSMADUMP on a different machine, you can install .NET 2.0 though Windows Update or download the .NET 2.0 Redistributable directly from Microsoft.
(All example batch files are included in the above zip file)
TSMADUMP DOMAIN http://webmail.test.com admin foobar
Will list all of the domains on the SmarterMail server whose login page is located at webmail.test.com. Note that "admin" must be an authorized host administrator, and "foobar" would be the password for that account.
TSMADUMP /Q /OUsers.csv USER http://webmail.test.com me@test.com
foobean test.com
Will create a file called Users.csv that lists all of the users in the domain josh.com and can be opened directly in Excel. The Note that me@test.com is the domain admin.
TSMADUMP ADDUSER http://webmail.test.com admin@josh.com
foobean jsmith please test.com Joe Smith N
Will add a new user account "jsmith@test.com" with the password "please", first name "Joe", last name "Smith", and he will not have domain admin rights.
TSMADump (c) 2007 Josh Levine [http://josh.com/TSMA]
A command line utility to dump information from a SmarterMail server.
Syntax:
TSMADump [/oOutputFile] [/c] [/q] command baseURL username password [params]
Where:
/oOutputFile will optionally write the results to the specified file
/c will optionally add commas between output fields
/q will optionally add quotes around output fields
Possible values for 'command' are:
USER
ALIAS
ALIASADDRESS
DOMAIN
USERFORWARD
DOMAINALIAS
USERAUTO
ADDUSER
ADDUSER2
Each command has a variable set of parameters.
Try running:
TSMADump command
for information on that command.
Return codes:
Errorlevel 1 - Success
Errorlevel 0 - Failure
Example usage:
TSMADump /oUsers.txt /q http://mail.test.com test@test.com foo USER test.com
...would create a list of all the users in the domain test.com on the server at
mail.test.com. The list would be written to a text file called users.txt.
Help for commands:
=== Command: USER ===
Dump all users in a domain.
Username/password provided must be either domain or system admin.
Outputs line for each user in the domain, each line has the fields...
UserName Password IsDomainAdmin IsSystemAdmin FirstName LastName
Additional parameters for the USER command:
Domain - the name of the domain or domain alias to list
=== Command: ALIAS ===
Dump all aliases in a domain.
Username/password provided must be either domain or system admin.
Outputs line for each alias in the domain, each line has the fields...
Alias
Additional parameters for the ALIAS command:
Domain - the name of the domain or domain alias to list
=== Command: ALIASADDRESS ===
Dump all the target email addresses for a given alias in a domain.
Username/password provided must be either domain or system admin.
Outputs line for each address listed in the alias, each line has the fields...
Alias TargetAddress
Additional parameters for the ALIASADDRESS command:
Domain - the name of the domain or domain alias to list
AliasName - the name of the alias to list
=== Command: DOMAIN ===
Dump all domains on the host.
Username/password provided must be system admin.
Outputs line for each domain on the server, each line has the fields...
Domain
Additional parameters for the DOMAIN command:
( none)
=== Command: USERFORWARD ===
Get forwarding info for a specific user.
Username/password provided must be requested user or domain or system admin.
Outputs line containing the fields...
Address ForwardingEnabled DeleteOnForward ForwardingAddress
Nothing will be output if the specified user is not found.
Additional parameters for the USERFORWARD command:
UserName - the email address to get forwarding info for
=== Command: DOMAINALIAS ===
Dump all domain aliases for a given domain.
Username/password provided must be domain admin or system admin.
Outputs line for each domain alias on the server, each line has the fields...
DomainAlias
Additional parameters for the DOMAINALIAS command:
Domain - the name of the domain to ifnd the aliases of
=== Command: USERAUTO ===
Get auto response info for a specific user.
Username/password provided must be requested user or domain or system admin.
Outputs line containing the fields...
Address AutoResponseEnabled
Nothing will be output if the specified user is not found.
Additional parameters for the USERAUTO command:
UserName - the email address to get autoresponse info for
=== Command: ADDUSER ===
Add a new user.
Username/password provided must be requested user or domain or system admin.
No output if successfull.
Additional parameters for the ADDUSER command:
UserName - new user name
Password - Password for new user
Domain - domain to add user into
FirstName - new user's first name
LastName - new user's last name
IsDomainAdmin - is this user a domain admin (Y=new user is a domain admin)
=== Command: ADDUSER2 ===
Add a new user.
Username/password provided must be requested user or domain or system admin.
No output if successfull.
Additional parameters for the ADDUSER command:
UserName - new user name
Password - Password for new user
Domain - domain to add user into
FirstName - new user's first name
LastName - new user's last name
IsDomainAdmin - is this user a domain admin (Y=new user is a domain admin)
MaxMailboxSize - the maximum mailbox size in MB
I had a problem with Yahoo rejecting emails from my mail server. It turns out that when Yahoo sees a SPAM-looking email coming from a server, they mark a strike against that server. Enough strikes and you are bared. I had a bunch of users who were forwarding their emails (spam and all) to their Yahoo accounts, so I was racking up strikes. I needed a way to find all these users and tell them to stop forwarding their emails to Yahoo and use Yahoo's POP3 downloaded instead.
I used this batch file to generate a list of all the users on my server that had forwards or aliases pointed to Yahoo.com (this file is included in the downloaded ZIP file). It first uses the DOMAIN command to dump all the domains on the server, then iterates though all the domains using the USER command to get a list of users in each domain, then it iterates over that list of users the dump all the forwards for each user with the FORWARD command. Next, it goes back over the list of all domains and grabs all the aliases with the ALIAS command. Finally it extracts all the destination addresses out of the list and filters only those that contain "@yahoo.com". Then this listed is displayed with NOTEPAD so you can easily cut and paste it.
Then I copied the result list out of NOTEPAD and pasted it into the BCC field on my GMAIL account and sent them all a nice email saying...
|
Dear gentle josh.com email user, You currently have your josh.com account or alias forwarding to your Yahoo account. This is bad because spams get forwarded to the Yahoo servers from the josh.com server and then Yahoos thinks josh.com is a spammer and will not accept mail from josh.com. Because of this, it is likely that you are not getting some (or most) of your forwarded email. Rather than setting up forwards *TO* Yahoo, it is better to set up your Yahoo account to grab your emails from *FROM* my server, and then delete the forward. This is easy to set up in Yahoo... http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/mail/mail/ext__access1.html I'd like to get this fixed as soon as possible since it causes other bad problems besides just you not getting your forwarded email. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! -josh |
Note that I sent this email using GMAIL and sent it directly to the users' Yahoo addresses. If I had sent it using my SmarterMail server, or sent it to their account on my SmarterMail server, it is likely they would not get it because Yahoo is currently rejecting emails from my server (the whole point of this exercise). I used the BCC field rather than the TO just to keep all the people from seeing each other addresses, and potentially doing a REPLY TO ALL and annoying everyone else.
Q: Do I have to be the host administrator to user TSMADUMP?
A: No, each command requires an appropriate security level. So, for
example, to get a list of all domains with the DOMAIN command, you must be the
host admin, but to get a list of all the users in a given domain with the USER
command, you need only be the admin of the requested domain, and even a normal
user can user the FORWARD command to list the forwards associated with their own
account. Note that a host admin can do anything that a domain admin or user can
do, and a domain admin can do anything that a user in that domain can do.
Q: Do I need to run TSMADUMP on the same machine that is running
SmarterMail?
A: No, TSMADUMP uses standard HTTP to access the SmarterMail server, so
any machine that can log into the SmarterMail webmail can also run TSMADUMP.
TSMA
Q: How do I find out what URL to use to access my SmarterMail
server with TSMADUMP?
A: You just use the same URL that you would use if you were going to log
into the SmarterMail webmail system and check your email. If you are running
TMSADUMP on the same machine as a freshly installed copy of SmarterMail, that
URL would likely by http://127.0.0.1:9998 ,
which points to the default SmarterMail internal web server.
Q: How do I find out what all the commands do?
A: Just enter TSMADUMP followed by the command and you'll see help for that
command. For example, entering TSMADUMP ALIAS will
display help on the ALIAS command which lets you dump all the aliases for a
domain.
Q: How does the return value work?
A: This is the value that the DOS errorlevel variable is set to when
TSMADUMP finishes. You
can check this value in a batch file. Here is an example of a DOS batch file
that will attempt to dump all the users in the domain josh.com into a text file
name joshusers.txt, then check to see if it was successful...
@echo Try to dump users
@TSMADUMP /ojoshusers.txt USER
http://webmail.josh.com admin foobar josh.com
@if errorlevel 1 goto done
@echo ***** ERROR!!! DUMP DID NOT SUCCEED !!!!
:done
Q: Why would TSMADUMP fail to execute successfully?
A: The most likely reasons are...
In each case, you should see an error message explaining what went wrong.
Q: How can I process a whole set of users in a batch file?
A: The
MS-DOS FOR /F command is very handy for processing
text files that contain lists of items, like those files produced by TSMADUMP.
It will iterate though each line in a text file and run a command or set of
commands on each line. It even lets you parse out the fields in each line.
So, here is an example of a few lines you could type at a command prompt that would generate a list of all the admin users in a given domain...
TSMADUMP /Ousers.txt USER
http://mail.test.com admin foobar USER
for /f "tokens=1,3" %i in (users.txt) do if "%j"=="True" echo %i >>admins.txt
type admins.txt
The first line connects to the SmarterMail server and gets all of the users saves them in the file users.txt. Each line in users.txt looks like this...
guy@test.com foobar False False Guy Tralane
We are interested in the first field (the username) and the third field (are they a domain admin?).
The for /f "tokens=1,3" %i in (users.txt) do will run though the
users.txt file and do whatever is after the do on each
line.
The "tokens=1,3" %i will grab the 1st and 3rd fields from each
line and assign them to the variables %i and %j.
The if "%j"=="True" echo %i >>admins.txt tests the 3rd field to
see if it is true (meaning that this person is a domain admin), and if it is, it
will print the 1st field (their username) onto the end of the admins.txt file.
Finally, the type admins.txt lists all the users that were
printed into the admins.txt file.
You can even nest for loops, so this gnarly command (yep, it is one long line)...
tsmadump /odomains.txt domain http://mail.test.com admin foobar & (for
/f %i in (domains.txt) do (tsmadump /ousers.txt user
http://mail.test.com admin foobar %i & (for /f "tokens=1,3" %j in (users.txt) do
if "%k"=="True" echo %j >>admins.txt))) & type admins.txt
...would print a list of all the admin users in all domains. Once things start getting this complicated, it is probably better to use a batch file to keep the program flow clean. Here is the same functionality in a batch file..
tsmadump /odomains.txt domain http://mail.test.com admin foobar
for /f %%i in (domains.txt) do (
tsmadump /ousers.txt user http://mail.test.com admin
foobar %%i
for /f "tokens=1,3" %%j in (users.txt) do (
if "%%k"=="True" echo %%j >>admins.txt
)
)
type admins.txt
...The only real difference here is that you can use multiple lines and variables must have two percent signs in from of them inside a batch file.
Q: Can I use TSMADUMP to import a bunch of users from a
spreadsheet file?
A: Yes, check out the NEWUSERS.BAT file included in the
TSMADUMP.ZIP file for an example.
The file NEWUSERS.CSV is an example spreadsheet that contains info for two new users to add. It looks like this...
There is one line for each user to add. Each line has the new username, the new password, the first name, the last name, and a flag indicating if the new user should be a domain admin.
If you ran the following from the command line...
NEWUSERS.BAT newusers.csv http://mail.test.com admin@test.com foobar
test.com
It would automatically add the users from the CSV on the specified SmarterMail server (assuming you replace the info with your server's URL, admin username/pass, and domain name).
When the batch file is complete, and users that could not be added will be listed in FAILS.CSV. You can then copy FAILS.CSV to newusers.csv and repeat the attempt to add these failed users until successful.
Q: How much does TSMADUMP cost?
A: TSMADUMP is free. I do ask that you do not redistribute it- instead, please
send people to this webpage so they can download it themselves. It would also be
great if you could send an email to me at the support address below so that I can let you know about any updates to the
program.
If you really love TSMADump, you can express your gratitude though a tax-deductible donation of any size to my favorite charity, The Aasha Foundation. They spend zero on administration and fundraising, so every dollar you give goes directly to helping the orphans.
Q: What is your relationship to SmarterTools, makers of SmarterMail?
A: None, except that I am a user of their program. I was able to write this utility because they provide public documentation for their web-services API, which I think adds real value to their product.
6/11/2007 - First published
6/18/2007 - Added the ADDUSER and ADDUSER2 commands. Fixed download link.
6/25/2008 - Fixed a cut/paste typo that showed an extra "USER" on the sample
ADDUSER command line.
6/26/2008 - Fixed "newuser.bat" to "newuserS.bat" typo in example text.
For support, please email me at...
