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Fighting with Exim Queues

February 3rd, 2010

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 my mail queues. Here are some very useful commands for Exim MTA. » Read more: Fighting with Exim Queues

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Addon Domain Error: Domain Owned from other user

November 3rd, 2009
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 entry regarding the howto.gr and creating it again. Thus you should edit the following files: » Read more: Addon Domain Error: Domain Owned from other user

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CPanel transfer account fails with “Timeout during ssh session”

October 24th, 2009

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 server and try to SSH back to the source server and troubleshoot the connection problems. Two of the most common issues are: » Read more: CPanel transfer account fails with “Timeout during ssh session”

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Upgrade ClamAV on CPanel Servers

October 11th, 2009

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” and the output is something like: » Read more: Upgrade ClamAV on CPanel Servers

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Roundcube WebMail on CPanel Servers

October 7th, 2009

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 the folder “/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube”. » Read more: Roundcube WebMail on CPanel Servers

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Exim Ignore MX Record

October 5th, 2009

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 cases you want any mail delivered for a domain to be forwarded to you advanced anti virus/anti spam server. Below we will show you how to do this and forward any mail for cphelp.gr and all it’s sub domains to the server superantispam.cphelp.gr instead of the MX record that shows mail.cphelp.gr. » Read more: Exim Ignore MX Record

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MySQL Usage Limit

October 1st, 2009

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 the queries never end so each new site user creates a new SQL connection. » Read more: MySQL Usage Limit

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