Here are some useful commands to manage the Exim mail server queue. Show the mail queue content :
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exim -bp |
Show the amount of mail in the queue :
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exim -bpc |
Delete a specific message in the queue, with the help of the first command in this example (exim -bp) to get the message ID :
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exim -Mrm <message_id> |
Encountering the following error message trying to increase space on a vDisk for a guest machine on VMware ESXi? Failed to reconfigure virtual machine VM_Name. Invalid operation for device ‘X’. This is most likely because you have one or more snapshot(s) present. You need first to delete/consolidate all snapshot before increasing the size of a… Read More »
Here is a procedure how to export the saved address book contacts from Roundcube webmail directly from the MySQL database to a CSV file (please note that Roundcube natively support exporting contacts from the Webmail itself to CSV – this method is only in case you want to pull out old contacts from a database).… Read More »
I recently had to provision a RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 system for a customer that owned a production system that I have provisioned four years ago. The new system requirement was to match the same package version as the old system (that they left un-updated since the deployment – fortunately for them it was an… Read More »
Encountering the following error with ownCloud? “Memcache \OC\Memcache\APCu not available for local cache Is the matching PHP module installed and enabled?” This usually mean that either the Memcache/APC module isn’t installed (or enabled), or a mistake in the ownCloud configuration is present. 1. Make sure the APC package is present on your system (the commands… Read More »
In some circumstances where you cannot use (or open) the task manager panel to see the logged in users on a system and need to terminate a opened session, you might need to know your way around the CLI to achieve this task. Those simple steps will show you how. 1. Open the Command Prompt… Read More »
If one of your hosted user (or account) have accidentally reached the max deferred message that can be sent over an hour (and the issue have been identified and fixed), you can unsuspend the mail delivery by deleting the following file :
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/var/cpanel/email_send_limits/max_deferfail_domain.tld |
For example, if the domain name is “itechlounge.net“, the command to execute… Read More »
This article will show you how to copy all outgoing email (transparently) of a specific user to another email account with Exim/cPanel. There is no built-in feature to do so, but we will use the Exim highly flexible filter scripting capability that can be achieve from the command line. 1. Log into your cPanel server… Read More »
If you are operating Ubiquiti wireless gear compatible with the Unifi controller, and running it on a Windows machine, you may have noticed that you need to start the application manually every time you restart the computer. Fortunately, there is a way of adding it “as a service”, just like any OS/system services. Follow the… Read More »
Using “screen” on Linux to perform your important work? Way to go, SysAdmin 🙂 Then you might at some point encountered the following behavior – while attempting to resume a session using “screen -r”, the following message occurred : There is a screen on: 1610.pts-0.host (25/08/18 08:25:36 PM) (Attached) There is no screen to be… Read More »