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email

string

Required

The email account username or address.

• A valid email account username. For example, user to createuser@example.com.
• A valid email address.

user

password

string

Required

The email account password.

A secure password.

12345luggage

domain

string

The email account's domain.

This parameter defaults to the cPanel account's main domain.

A valid domain on the cPanel account.

For example, example.com to createuser@example.com.

example.com

quota

integer

The maximum amount of disk space that the new email account may use.

This parameter defaults to 250.

A positive integer that represents the maximum amount of disk space, in Megabytes (MB).

Note:

To grant unlimited disk space, specify 0.

500

 skip_update_db 

 Boolean 

Whether to skip the update of the email accounts database's cache.

This parameter defaults to 0.

• 1 — Skip the update.
• 0 — Perform the update.

1

password_hash

string

The account's password hash.

Note:

• You can use this parameter in place of the password parameter. However, you cannot use bothpassword and password_hashparameters in the same request.
• This parameter is only available in cPanel and WHM version 54+.

A valid password hash that utilizes your server's cryptographic hash function.

Note:

You can find your server's hash type in the/etc/sysconfig/authconfigfile.

data

 string 

The email address.

 The email account username, a plus character (+), and the email account domain. 

 user+example.com