Command Line Applications

IMail Server's command line applications are useful for automating tasks that would otherwise be tedious to perform. These applications can accept input from the Windows Command Prompt; likewise, they send messages to the Command Prompt display.

You can run these applications by typing commands at the Command Prompt, running commands in a batch file, or running commands that are saved in a text file.

Command line applications can be used in conjunction with input from a web browser. For example, a system administrator can have users fill out a web form specifying a host name; the administrator can then use a script to execute adddomain.exe to create a virtual host on the IMail Server. Or, the administrator can take text from a web form and call imail1.exe to create a mail message from the text.

Note: In most command line utilities, you can use either a hyphen or a forward slash as a delimiter, the argument may or may not be preceded by a space, and most flags can be upper or lower case. In other words, -hhostname, -h hostname, /hhostname, /h hostname, and -H hostname are equivalent.

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