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create_alias

Create email aliases with forwarding to manage email routing and organization for Migadu hosting services.

Instructions

Create email aliases with forwarding. List of dicts with: target (local part), destinations (email list), domain (optional), is_internal (optional).

Input Schema

TableJSON Schema
NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
aliasesYes

Implementation Reference

  • The main MCP tool handler function for 'create_alias'. It handles a list of alias configurations, logs the operation, delegates to process_create_alias for bulk processing, and returns the result.
    @mcp.tool(
        annotations={
            "readOnlyHint": False,
            "destructiveHint": False,
            "idempotentHint": False,
            "openWorldHint": True,
        },
    )
    async def create_alias(
        aliases: List[Dict[str, Any]], ctx: Context
    ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        """Create email aliases with forwarding. List of dicts with: target (local part), destinations (email list), domain (optional), is_internal (optional)."""
        count = len(list(ensure_iterable(aliases)))
        await log_bulk_operation_start(ctx, "Creating", count, "alias")
    
        result = await process_create_alias(aliases, ctx)
        await log_bulk_operation_result(ctx, "Alias creation", result, "alias")
        return result
  • Pydantic schema for validating individual alias creation requests. Used by @bulk_processor_with_schema decorator on process_create_alias.
    class AliasCreateRequest(BaseModel):
        """Request schema for creating an alias"""
    
        target: str = Field(..., description="Local part of alias")
        destinations: Union[List[EmailStr], str] = Field(
            ..., description="List of email addresses or CSV string"
        )
        domain: Optional[str] = Field(None, description="Domain name")
        is_internal: bool = Field(False, description="Internal-only flag")
    
        @field_validator("destinations", mode="before")
        @classmethod
        def normalize_destinations(cls, v: Union[List[str], str]) -> List[str]:
            return normalize_destinations(v)
  • Registration call to register_alias_tools(mcp), which defines and registers the create_alias tool among others.
    register_alias_tools(mcp)
  • Helper function decorated with bulk_processor_with_schema that processes a single validated alias creation request and calls the service layer.
    @bulk_processor_with_schema(AliasCreateRequest)
    async def process_create_alias(
        validated_item: AliasCreateRequest, ctx: Context
    ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        """Process a single alias creation with Pydantic validation"""
        # Use validated Pydantic model directly - all validation already done
        target = validated_item.target
        destinations = validated_item.destinations
        domain = validated_item.domain
        is_internal = validated_item.is_internal
    
        # Get domain if not provided
        if domain is None:
            from migadu_mcp.config import get_config
    
            config = get_config()
            domain = config.get_default_domain()
            if not domain:
                raise ValueError("No domain provided and MIGADU_DOMAIN not configured")
    
        email_address = format_email_address(domain, target)
        await log_operation_start(
            ctx, "Creating alias", f"{email_address} -> {', '.join(destinations)}"
        )
    
        service = get_service_factory().alias_service()
        # Convert List[EmailStr] to List[str] for service layer
        destinations_str = [str(dest) for dest in destinations]
        result = await service.create_alias(
            domain, target, destinations_str, is_internal
        )
    
        await log_operation_success(ctx, "Created alias", email_address)
        if is_internal:
            await ctx.info("🔒 Configured as internal-only alias")
    
        return {"alias": result, "email_address": email_address, "success": True}
  • Core service implementation that performs the actual API POST request to create an alias in Migadu.
    async def create_alias(
        self,
        domain: str,
        local_part: str,
        destinations: List[str],
        is_internal: bool = False,
    ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        """Create a new alias"""
        data = {
            "local_part": local_part,
            "destinations": ",".join(destinations),
            "is_internal": is_internal,
        }
        return await self.client.request(
            "POST", f"/domains/{domain}/aliases", json=data
        )

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