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Taking Control of Email to Simplify Your Life – Part 2

21 January 2011

A potential downside to my previous post about using cPanel for forwarding emails is that cPanel keeps all the emails in the account that is being forwarded (we’ll call it the “original account.”) This is great if you are checking email in both the original account and the account being forwarded to (like I discussed in [...]

The Whys & Hows of Email Forwarding

5 May 2010

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Simplify your life and reduce the time you spend on email by using cPanel to forward email to anaddress, such as one at Google Gmail that consolidates multiple email addresses and has more features. There are a variety of scenarios that forwarding can be your friend and helpful assistant. Some examples:

Don’t Be Hacker Bait With a Bad Password

9 January 2009

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When you set your password, including on cPanel, or email accounts, be sure to select one that is hard to guess. But what does “hard to guess” mean? Take a look at The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time: From the moment people started using passwords, it didn’t take long to realize how many [...]

Enable AutoLoad

28 June 2008

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When you log into your webmail, there is now a link that says [ Enable AutoLoad ] under each webmail client. Click the AutoLoad link under your preferred webmail client and when you log in in the future, that webmail client will automatically load instead of giving you the option to select webmail client.

Quick Reference: Secure and Non-Secure cPanel and Webmail Logins

16 October 2007

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Here are the login formats for cPanel and web-based email (can be any of NeoMail, Horde and SquirrelMail, depending on what is enabled on your server). Remember to use the secure login when you are using a wireless internet connection that is not your own secured network. cPanel Non-Secure http://yoursite.com/cpanel/ Non-Secure http://yoursite.com:2082/ Secure https://yoursite.com:2083/ Webmail [...]

Avoid Common Errors When Trying to Blackhole Spam

21 February 2007

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It’s easy to make errors that prevent spam from being blackholed. (An earlier post, described how to blackhole spam with email filters.) Several people recently swore to me that SpamAssassin was broken. I checked the email filters they had set up and found some peskly self-inflicted problems. Here’s the problem so that you can hopefully [...]

How Do I Find Emails On My Server?

20 February 2007

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Just where are those emails stored on your server? For emails that have been delivered, here is how: Log into cPanel, click the “File Manager” icon. Go to the directory named (appropriately) “mail.” (Your “public_html” directory is at the same level directory as “mail.”) When you have only one, default, email set up, you will [...]

Another Way To Delete all Emails: Use SSH

8 November 2006

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The previous post provided a command that deletes all emails sent to an email address. You can also use this command when you log directly into your server via ssh (assuming your hosting provides allows this type of access). I highly recommend SSH secure shell client.

Cron Job to Clear Out an Overstuffed Email Inbox

8 November 2006

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You have an email inbox that is filled up. Or perhaps your “spam box” is filled up. You have so many emails to delete that it would take you forever to clear it out, page by page with NeoMail. One of my customers cried for help because of 35 MBs of spam that had accumulated. [...]

The Number 1 Cause of “Missing” Emails (and It’s Not the Server’s Fault)

3 October 2006

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“I am not receiving all my email!” and “People are not receiving emails from me!” are common customer complaints. Sender tells recipient they sent an email. Recipient checks and does not see it. Blame the email service. Ditto for the reverse (not receiving an email you sent.) The first step is to check the email [...]

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Taking Control of Email to Simplify Your Life – Part 2

The Whys & Hows of Email Forwarding

Don’t Be Hacker Bait With a Bad Password

Enable AutoLoad

Quick Reference: Secure and Non-Secure cPanel and Webmail Logins

Avoid Common Errors When Trying to Blackhole Spam

How Do I Find Emails On My Server?

Another Way To Delete all Emails: Use SSH

Cron Job to Clear Out an Overstuffed Email Inbox

The Number 1 Cause of “Missing” Emails (and It’s Not the Server’s Fault)

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