Introduction Plesk stores email account information within its internal database. In certain administrative scenarios, server administrators may need to review email account records associated with a domain for troubleshooting, migration, or account management purposes. This article explains how to access the Plesk database and retrieve email account authentication information associated… Continue Reading Plesk – Retrieve Email Account Password Information

Introduction Search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo help websites gain visibility and attract visitors by indexing publicly accessible content. However, there are situations where certain files, directories, administrative areas, or sensitive resources should not appear in search engine results. To control which parts of a website are indexed,… Continue Reading Prevent Files and Directories from Being Indexed by Search Engines

Introduction HTTPS is used to secure communication between the user’s browser and the web server. It helps protect sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, contact form data, and payment details by encrypting the connection. If a website is accessible through both HTTP and HTTPS, users may still open the non-secure… Continue Reading Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Apache

Introduction FileZilla is a free and user-friendly FTP client that makes file transfer easy through a graphical interface. Instead of using command-line FTP, FileZilla allows you to upload, download, delete, and manage files using drag-and-drop or right-click options. It is commonly used to upload website files to a hosting server.… Continue Reading How to Use FileZilla FTP Client to Upload Website Files

Introduction Email spam originating from compromised websites, vulnerable scripts, or unauthorized users can negatively impact your server’s reputation and lead to IP blacklisting. On cPanel servers, Exim MTA provides detailed logging that can help administrators identify the source of spam emails. This guide explains how to enable advanced Exim logging… Continue Reading Catching Spammers on cPanel Server -EXIM (MTA)

Introduction In some hosting environments, it may be necessary to limit the bandwidth usage of a specific user, domain, file type, or virtual host. Although cPanel provides account-level bandwidth limits, there may be cases where you need to control the bandwidth speed per hour, per day, or per request directly… Continue Reading Limit Apache Bandwidth Per User

Introduction In some environments, administrators may need to create a copy of all incoming and outgoing email messages for monitoring, compliance, auditing, or backup purposes. On cPanel/WHM servers running Exim, this can be achieved by configuring a custom Exim system filter that silently forwards (blind carbon copies) email messages to… Continue Reading How to Forward All Incoming and Outgoing Emails Using Exim System Filters in cPanel/WHM

Introduction The “451 Temporarily unable to process your email. Please try again later” error is a temporary SMTP delivery failure that occurs when a remote mail server cannot accept email at the time of delivery. In an Exim-based mail server environment, messages that encounter this error are placed in the… Continue Reading How to Resolve the “451 Temporarily Unable to Process Your Email” Error in Exim

Introduction When working in a Linux shell, it is possible to accidentally overwrite important files by redirecting command output to an existing file. To help prevent such mistakes, Bash provides the noclobber option. When enabled, this feature protects existing files from being overwritten through output redirection (>), reducing the risk… Continue Reading Preventing Accidental File Overwrites with noclobber in Linux

Introduction Monitoring the mail queue is an important part of managing a Qmail mail server. A large number of messages in the queue can indicate delivery issues, spam activity, mail server problems, or remote mail server connectivity issues. The following script automatically checks the number of messages currently present in… Continue Reading Script to Check the Qmail Queue