API request Speed - comment

[Programming4People]

Attempting to move several domains to Power-Mailinabox.. wrote script to create an alias to existing email then update web record for domain and www to point to an existing web server using API..

Was hitting server too hard so had to put in a sleep 10 between calls so as not to choke server allowing it to work.

[ddavness]

When you add a new domain (be it via user or alias), the management daemon will already update the web and DNS configurations for you - therefore you don't need to do such automatically.

Because there are some heavier tasks when adding a new domain, it's natural that some of these operations take time. Depending on what you use to write the script, doing the process synchronously should be enough (instead of doing all the calls in an async fashion - aka à là Node.JS)

[Programming4People]

I actually had a command line calling a script like:

cat hostMyDomains| while read -r line ; do sethostDomain $line
done;

where hostMyDomains was a file of all the domains on a single line I needed to host... with the www and domain name pointing to a different server.

The contents of the sethostDomain were:
#!/bin/bash
curl --user "masteremail@postbox.com:pa$$word" -X POST -d "address=info@$1" -d "forwards_to=aggrigated@masterdomain.com" -d "update_if_exists=1" https://box.postbox.com/admin/mail/aliases/add

curl -X PUT -d "value=142.250.200.14" -u "masteremail@postbox.com:pa$$word" https://box.postbox.com/admin/dns/custom/$1

curl -X PUT -d "value=142.250.200.14" -u "masteremail@postbox.com:pa$$word" https://box.postbox.com/admin/dns/custom/www.$1

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of course the domain postbox.com is substituted for my mail domain and masterdomain.com is the main domain that I am using.
Also the IP 142.250.200.14 is not the IP that I was using for our existing placeholder server.
and 'pa$$word' is the place holder for the password...

by adding a 'sleep 10' between after each curl everything worked with a domain list of 60 domains.

BTW, thank you for a nice system. I had to move a bunch of legacy google apps stuff over.. so this worked for me. I did not want to use the mailinabox, as it was on an old version of ubuntu.