Forward Email API: Wrapper Script for Creating Aliases

create-email-alias.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Usage:
#		create-email-alias.sh $URL_OR_DESC [$SLUG]
# Example:
#		create-email-alias.sh "https://www.darwinsailingclub.com.au" dsc
# Results in:
#		Email dsc.g9ahxh@example.com -> me+dsc@example.net.au, comment: "https://www.darwinsailingclub.com.au"

# Environment variables can be supplied at run time or set in ~/.forward-email

#  FORWARD_EMAIL_API_TOKEN    The secure API token for your Forward Email account.
#  FORWARD_EMAIL_MAILBOX      The private mailbox emails should forwarded to. Assumed to support "+" aliasing.
#  FORWARD_EMAIL_DOMAIN       The public domain you have setup in Forward Email on which aliases should be created.

# Exit on error, empty vars error
set -eu

GREEN='\x1b[32m'
TEXT='\x1b[37m'
NC='\e[0m'
print_status () {
	printf "\n${GREEN} ➔  ${TEXT}${1}${TEXT}\n";
}

# Current dir
SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"

# Get local settings
VARS_PATH="${HOME}/.forward-email"
print_status "Sourcing vars from ${VARS_PATH}"
source "${VARS_PATH}"

# Check for required env vars
: "${FORWARD_EMAIL_API_TOKEN:?A API token must be supplied as FORWARD_EMAIL_API_TOKEN}"
: "${FORWARD_EMAIL_MAILBOX:?A target mailbox must be supplied as FORWARD_EMAIL_MAILBOX}"
: "${FORWARD_EMAIL_DOMAIN:?The forwarding domain must be supplied as FORWARD_EMAIL_DOMAIN}"

print_status "Using forwarding domain ${GREEN}${FORWARD_EMAIL_DOMAIN}${TEXT} and base mailbox ${GREEN}${FORWARD_EMAIL_MAILBOX}${TEXT}"

# Check we have a domain or description
: "${1:?A site url or description must be supplied as the 1st argument}"
URL_OR_DESC=${1}

# Extract a default slug from (what we assume is) the URL
UOD_NO_PROTO="${URL_OR_DESC##*//}"
UOD_NO_WWW="${UOD_NO_PROTO##www.}"
UOD_NO_TLD="${UOD_NO_WWW%%.*}"

# Remove bad chars (this also can potentially give us a decent slug if the value wasn't a url)
UOD_LOWER="$(echo "$UOD_NO_TLD" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')"
UOD_SAFE="${UOD_LOWER//[^a-zA-Z0-9\-]/}"
SLUG=${2:-${UOD_SAFE}}

# Incorporate the slug into the forwarding address
FORWARD_ADDRESS="${FORWARD_EMAIL_MAILBOX/@/+${SLUG}@}"

# Incorporate the slug into the alias + random string
ALIAS="${SLUG}.$(head -c32 /dev/urandom | base64 | tr -dc 'a-z0-9' | head -c6)"

# Confirm
print_status "Creating alias ${GREEN}${ALIAS}@${FORWARD_EMAIL_DOMAIN}${TEXT} forwarding to ${GREEN}${FORWARD_ADDRESS}${TEXT} with the description ${GREEN}${URL_OR_DESC}${TEXT}\n    Continue? (y/n)"
read -n 1 -r
if [[ ! $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
then
   exit 1
fi

# echo "FORWARD_EMAIL_DOMAIN :  ${FORWARD_EMAIL_DOMAIN}"
# echo "ALIAS                :  ${ALIAS}"
# echo "FORWARD_ADDRESS      :  ${FORWARD_ADDRESS}"
# echo "URL_OR_DESC          :  ${URL_OR_DESC}"

# Capture the response
print_status "Calling API..."
RESPONSE=$(
	curl -s -X POST "https://api.forwardemail.net/v1/domains/${FORWARD_EMAIL_DOMAIN}/aliases" \
    -u "${FORWARD_EMAIL_API_TOKEN}:" \
    --data-urlencode "name=${ALIAS}" \
    --data-urlencode "recipients=${FORWARD_ADDRESS}" \
    --data-urlencode "description=${URL_OR_DESC}" \
    --data-urlencode "is_enabled=true"
)

# Output
print_status "Done for ${GREEN}${ALIAS}@${FORWARD_EMAIL_DOMAIN}${TEXT}"
echo $RESPONSE | jq -r '{ id: .id, alias: .name, domain: .domain.name, recipient: .recipients[0], description: .description, enabled: .is_enabled }'

Assumes you have jq installed.