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I wrote previously about SpamAssassin and turning on a spam box. Say you gets tons of spam and want to just delete it all automatically instead of sending it to a spam box that you never review. It is easy to set up using cPanel’s menu driven command building tool. Here’s how.

When you want to add a low-cost or free forum to your site, you can install phpBB by using cPanel. Most setups of cPanel let you install, delete or upgrade phpBB and other software from within cPanel. Click the link called “Scripts Library” on the main cPanel page. This takes you to links to the [...]

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 [...]

You can check your email without logging into cPanel. For example, say your site is mysite.com, you would go to: http://www.mysite.com/webmail/ This takes you to a login screen. Username is your entire email address (for example, me@mysite.com) cPanel provides three web user interfaces to your email: NeoMail, Horde and SquirrelMail. (The links are provided only [...]

Sometimes you will have to change the permissions of a file. I had to do this recently to get an installation of WordPress blog to run. Here is how to change file permissions using cPanel: log into cPanel look for File Manager and follow the link you will get a window that says Please select [...]

Create a new email address using cPanel. When logged into cPanel, click “Mail.” You get a list of links (the page is titled “Mail Manager Main Menu“). You will see a list of your existing email addresses. Click “Manage/Add/Remove Accounts“. At the very bottom, there’s a link “[Add Account].” Note that most hosting companies set [...]

Now that you are running SpamAssassin, there are more steps to take to get ahead of spam. One step is to set up a “spam box.” A spam box is part of your email account. It works much like the spam folders in gmail, Yahoo mail, et al. All email tagged by SpamAssassin is put [...]

Work with your MySQL databases through phpMyAdmin, a great browser-based application you access through cPanel. I use it often and still have a hard time finding the link. When you are logged into cPanel: Click the link for MySQL Databases Scroll toward the bottom of the page (below the MySQL Account Maintenance section) Click the [...]

A site owner is often surprised by a warning email that disk space used is reaching the maximum size. Email is often to blame. Add up all the email inboxes, spam, deleted mail and sent mail for all your email addresses and your email is likely to take up a surprising amount of disk space. [...]

“Disk Space Usage” functionality in cPanel is a handy way to help you determine what files are taking up so much space.  It can be hard to track down where the problem is because your total usage includes email, databases, log files and more in addition to the files associated with your website. You may [...]