Posted on 09 October 2011.
No more self-signed certificates
Typically for a low volume site where verified identity is not import one would use a self-signed certificate for SSL. Unfortunately these triggers security warnings in browsers and require you to recognise/remember checksums to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks when accessing your own servers over HTTPS. Continue Reading
Posted in Network, Plesk, Programming
Posted on 18 February 2011. Tags: mail, spam
In the internet’s standard e-mail protocol SMTP, a bounce message, also called a Non-Delivery Report/Receipt (NDR), a (failed) Delivery Status Notification (DSN) message, a Non-Delivery Notification (NDN) or simply a bounce, is an automated electronic mail message from a mail system informing the sender of another message about a delivery problem. The original message is said to have bounced. Continue Reading
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Posted on 17 February 2011.
No.
The From field in most spam is forged and meaningless. Some spamware uses addresses from the spammer’s “To” list to also fill in the “From” address. Usually that is just a random selection, but occasionally spammers “bounce bomb” a particular recipient with thousands of forged return-paths forged in the victim’s name, either out of revenge or simply because their ratware is shoddy and the random rotation fails. Continue Reading
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Posted on 17 February 2011. Tags: spam
Reporting Spam
SpamCop parses reported email, sending warning information to the internet service provider responsible for hosting the services used by the spammer (web sites and email sending sites). SpamCop also uses the information to generate SpamCop’s free blocking list.
http://www.spamcop.net/ Continue Reading
Posted in Plesk
Posted on 17 February 2011.
Overview
This document describes features that require Postfix version 2.0 or later.
Topics covered in this document:
The examples use Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (Postfix pcre: tables), but also provide a translation to POSIX regular expressions (Postfix regexp: tables). PCRE is preferred primarily because the implementation is often faster. Continue Reading
Posted in Plesk
Posted on 11 February 2011.
This tutorial describes how to setup a wildcard DNS record in Plesk 8 using Bind and Apache. This allows you to use *.domain.com to access your www.domain.com (http://www.domain.com) website. For example, any of the following would be automatically redirected to www.domain.com (http://www.domain.com)
test.domain.com
john.domain.com
jane.domain.com
bugs.domain.com
Continue Reading
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Posted on 18 December 2010. Tags: mail, Plesk, qmail, server
SMTP or sending mail problems are common and usually easy to troubleshoot. This document will help customers troubleshoot SMTP problems on all (mt) Media Temple hosting platforms. Continue Reading
Posted in Linux, Plesk
Posted on 02 November 2010. Tags: Plesk, qmail
# /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mailqueuemng –help
qmHandle v1.2.0
Copyright 1998-2003 Michele Beltrame
Available parameters:
-a : try to send queued messages now (qmail must be running)
-l : list message queues
-L : list local message queue
-R : list remote message queue
-T : list todo message queue
-s : show some statistics
-mN : display message number N
-dN : delete message number N
-Stext : delete all messages that have/contain text as Subject
-D : delete all messages in the queue (local and remote)
-V : print program version
Additional (optional) parameters:
-c : display colored output
-N : list message numbers only
(to be used either with -l, -L, -R or -T)
You can view/delete multiple message i.e. -d123 -v456 -d567
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Posted in Linux, Plesk
Posted on 02 November 2010. Tags: Plesk, qmail, qmhandle, stats
Details
When the mail queue on a (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server has messages stacked up you can use the tool qmHandle.
- Download qmHandle from SourceForge. You actually only need the script ‘qmHandle’ so use that if you have it handy. Upload it to the server and untar it if necessary. You may download the file directly from SourceForge using the wget command: Continue Reading
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Posted on 01 November 2010. Tags: Plesk
Symptoms
AWstats statistics generator is used by domain:
Domains -> <domain name> -> Setup -> Web statistics: AWstats Continue Reading
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