Although I am fond of Sendmail, I have to admin that there are lot of other respectable MTAs that do a great job, are very very powerful and are far easier to install, configure and administer. Due to my numerous CPanel servers I usually have to work with Exim MTA and perform various operations on […]
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Addon Domain Error: Domain Owned from other user
It happens sometimes when you try to create a new addon domain (howto.gr in our example) to receive the error message: ” Error from domain wrapper: howto.gr is owned from another user “ This can happens due to various reasons and it can be very tricky to resolve. The solution is to completely remove every […]
Read More →CPanel transfer account fails with “Timeout during ssh session”
When you try to move an account from one CPanel server to another through SSH you may get an error like: “Packaging the account… … Timeout during ssh session … Retrying….” besides the fact that SSH seems to be working on the remote host. In such cases you should login through SSH on the target […]
Read More →Upgrade ClamAV on CPanel Servers
It is a common question for CPanel administrators why Cpanel does not keep ClamAV up to date. I don’t have the answer but i can demonstrate a simple workaround to upgrade clamav yourself with as little work as possible. You can identify if you use an old ClamAV version if you execute the command “freshclam” […]
Read More →Roundcube WebMail on CPanel Servers
Roundcube webmail is a very promising Open Source webmail client. With CPanel 11 installing RoundCube is quite easy and with no file editing of CPanel files. To install roundcube you should first download RoundCube Webmail from http://roundcube.net/ . Unzip the software somewhere and upload all files and folders (maybe with WinSCP) to your server in […]
Read More →Exim Ignore MX Record
There are some cases where you want to ignore the configured MX record in order to deliver e-mails for a domain and instead deliver them to a preconfigured server. A very common situation where you want to do this is when you provide advanced anti virus and anti spam solutions to your clients. In those […]
Read More →MySQL Usage Limit
It usually happens on a server to have high load for no apparent reason. My experience have shown that most of the times this high load is due to badly written SQL queries which cause MySQL to use all available resources for lots of time. This also causes an an excessive number of connections as […]
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