Adding Users from my own control panel

==== Required information ====
- iRedMail version: Latest
- Store mail accounts in which backend (LDAP/MySQL/PGSQL): MySQL
- Linux/BSD distribution name and version: CentOS 6.3
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I would like to be able to add users to my mail server from my own custom admin panel.

Is there an example of how I would add a user / email account?

I understand the iRedMail admin portal just manages the MySQL database.

How would I hash passwords to correspond with the current schema?