Tracking which account is sending spam on a plesk server
This is not an easy task without knowing a few tricks as the log files are not an awful lot of help. Providing you have […]
qmail
qmail delete all emails from specific domain in queue
I installed qmailhandle and tried to delete using wildcards and it didn’t work. This command however does. /usr/bin/qmhandle.pl -h’\@domain’
flush the qmail queue
To retry all the emails in the qmail queue kill -ALRM `ps ax | grep [q]mail-send | awk ‘{print $1}’`
Problem with php mail function bouncing emails back to postmaster.
A server I manage hosts around 200 sites each owned by different webmasters. A number of these have form to mail style scripts. A small […]
plesk qmail bounce problems
If you are getting double bounces clogging up your mail queue Create the following file /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto And put a single # You can replace the […]
How to force qmail to process the outbound queue
If/When you get a DNS problem or other network issue that causes the queue to fail it will fill up at a fair speed. Use […]
Remove DRWeb from plesk
DRWeb has been causing lots of problems on 3 servers. Here is how to remove it completely [sourcecode]rpm -qa | grep "drweb" | xargs rpm […]
Changing the default output IP
If you want to change the outgoing IP address of your server use the following command. Execute this command # /sbin/ip route The output should […]
A quicker way to install spamdyke greylisting with control panel on plesk
Here is a quicker way to install greylisting and give it a decent control panel in plesk [sourcecode]wget -q -O – http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | sh yum […]
How to clear the qmail queue
I recently needed to clear down a qmail queue. There were no valid emails on the server but the queue was full of failed spam […]