Category Archives: plesk

SoftLayer Hosting = Win

Posted on August 2, 2008 by tm

So I have a business. It’s a web-based CRM platform for Auto Dealerhips. My partner and I plugged away for about 4 years trying to build and grow it. Somewhere along the way I got fed up with our dedicated … Continue reading →

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Bypass SSL Certificate Errors when connecting an iPhone to Plesk Mail Account

Posted on March 12, 2008 by tm

On the iPhone: Select Settings, Mail Select Add Account… Select Other Enter all of your relevant email account details. Be sure to select IMAP or POP before you “Cancel” and “Save.” You can’t adjust that setting when modifying the account … Continue reading →

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SSL certificate setup for pop3s, imaps, smtps on Plesk

Posted on March 12, 2008 by tm

lifted from here HOWTO to setup an SSL certificate on a Plesk server so that it will be used when people connect through secure pop, smtp and imap. First, you will need a certificate. It can be self signed or … Continue reading →

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SMTP on different Port in Plesk

Posted on March 12, 2008 by tm

Copy /etc/xinetd.d/smtp_psa to smtp2_psa In the new file, REPLACE service smtp WITH service smtp2 Then modify /etc/services and add the smtp2 service (port 26 in this example). smtp2 26/tcp mail smtp2 26/udp mail Then restart xinetd /etc/init.d/xinetd restart Check that … Continue reading →

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Plesk qmail notes

Posted on February 17, 2008 by tm

lifted from here Qmail Log Location in Plesk: /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog Ignore Mail to unkown user instead of bouncing: One domain at a time: edit /var/qmail/mailnames/<domain.goes.here.com>/.qmail-default and replace its contents with: |true to change for all domains: find /var/qmail/mailnames/ | grep .qmail-default … Continue reading →

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Linux / Plesk / APF Quick and Dirty Howto

Posted on September 29, 2007 by tm

As root from SSH term: wget http://www.rfxnetworks.com/downloads/apf-current.tar.gz tar -xvzf apf-current.tar.gz cd apf-*/ ./install.sh Check for install errors Installation Details: Install path: /etc/apf/ Config path: /etc/apf/conf.apf Executable path: /usr/local/sbin/apf AntiDos install path: /etc/apf/ad/ AntiDos config path: /etc/apf/ad/conf.antidos DShield Client Parser: /etc/apf/extras/dshield/ … Continue reading →

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Plesk: Train SpamAssassin and apply to all accounts server-wide

Posted on August 29, 2007 by tm

Ripped from here chose an email account on the server to act as the model for SpamAssassin training. Using IMAP, create a SPAM and a HAM folder for this account. Copy messages that are spam into the SPAM folder and … Continue reading →

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Plesk: Configure domain to use external mail server

Posted on May 23, 2007 by tm

From inside the control panel at the domain’s DNS section: Remove the default CNAME record for mail.domain.com. Then create an A record for mail.domain.com to point to the IP address of the external mail server. Since remote mailserver functionality is … Continue reading →

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Plesk: Improve SMTP speed

Posted on May 1, 2007 by tm

Edit /etc/xinetd.d/smtp_psa Add “-Rt0″ to “server_args”. It will then look like this: server_args = -Rt0 /var/qmail/bin/relaylock /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /var/qmail/bin/smtp_auth /var/qmail/bin/true /var/qmail/bin/cmd5checkpw /var/qmail/bin/true Save the file, and restart xinetd: /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

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