Account Administration & API

What is LuxSci's API?

LuxSci's application programming interface allows you, the account administrator, to write programs or scripts, residing anywhere on the Internet, which can perform account administration tasks such as updating, creating, and querying users.

There are two levels of the API: "Account" for performing administrative tasks, and "User" for accessing user-level settings and data. API access is available upon request for no additional charge — simply ask our support staff to enable your account for access if you are interested.

REST: LuxSci's API is REST-based and uses JSON for data transport.

LuxSci API Documentation

Download the following PDFs of the LuxSci API documentation to learn how it works in detail.

• General API Usage Guide
• User API Functions Guide
• Account API Functions Guide

What can I do with the Account-Level API?

You can employ the Account API to perform the following functions:

• Create new users
• Enable, disable, and delete users
• Change users' individual disk space limits
• Copy WebMail preferences from one user to another
• Add and remove services such as POP, IMAP, SMTP, and Spam/Virus Filtering to/from users
• Set and remove various "flags" from users which determine things such as if the user must change his/her password on next login.
• Download user reports including contact information, last login date and time, services accessible, and much more.
• Create new domains in your account
• Delete domains from your account
• Update domain properties and catch-all email aliases.
• Get a report summarizing the status of all of the domains in your account.
• Create, update, and delete email aliases in your domains
• Reporting
  • Request a report summarizing the status of all email aliases, user email forwarding rules, and catchall aliases in your domains.
  • Query messages sent by account users
  • Query delivery status of messages sent
  • Query feed-back loop responses resulting from messages sent
  • Query SMTP email sending failures, login failures, and rejections
• Manage SecureForm Data
  • Get information about your SecureForm configurations
  • Query and Download rows and files of SecureForm data saved in a database
  • Delete rows and files from SecureForm data saved in a database
  • Synchronize your SecureForm post data database with your external systems.
• Manage SecureSend NameSpaces
  • List SecureSend users in a NameSpace
  • Create and update users
  • Change user passwords
  • Single Sign-On: Create temporary links to automatic login to SecureSend user accounts.

Uses for LuxSci's Account API

You can employ the API to:

• Perform bulk domain, user, and/or email alias creation or deletion.
• Perform bulk or automatic updates to users.
• Synchronize passwords between LuxSci and your own web site or external database.
• Create your own web page on your web site that will handle the sign up of new users and which will use the API to automatically create these new users in your LuxSci account.
• Retrieve reports on users, domains, and aliases for arbitrary analysis on your side.

If you have any questions about LuxSci's Account API please contact our support staff.

What can I do with the User-Level API?

The User-Level API enables full access to WebAides (Calendars, Tasks, Address Books, Notes, and Links).

You can employ the User API to perform the following functions:

• Get Single Sign-On login links
• Manage application-specific logins
• Get and update user contact information
• Change user passwords
• Retrieve selected user preferences (e.g. preferred time zone)
• Email
  • Send secure email messages using SecureLine
  • Send SecureText messages
  • Query to see if specific domains properly support TLS for email transport encryption
  • Change user email forwarding settings
  • Query, create, and delete user auto-responders
• WebAides (Address Books, Calendars, Tasks, Notes)
  • Create and Delete WebAides
  • Retrieve information about entries individually, and in bulk
  • Update entries individually and in bulk
  • Add entries individually and in bulk
  • Delete entries individually and in bulk
  • Download, add, and update SecureLine information for address book recipients -- Escrow questions and answers, PGP certificates, and S/MIME certificates.
• Reporting
  • Query messages sent by a specific user
  • Query delivery status of messages sent
  • Query feed-back loop responses resulting from messages sent
  • Query SMTP email sending failures, login failures, and rejections
• Retrieve user-specific Private Labeled Theme information such as:
  • WebMail company name and URL
  • Names of the POP, IMAP, SMTP, and FTP servers the user should use
  • Names and email addresses of the administrative and technical support contacts for WebMail

Access to user-level commands can be enabled to work with or without knowing the passwords for the users in your account -- depending on the needs and trust-level of your API client application.

If you have any questions about LuxSci's User API please contact our support staff.