Make a backup of the old key and certificate file mv /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem.old mv /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.key /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.key.old Create the new SSL certificate openssl genrsa -out /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.key 1024 openssl req -new -x509 -key /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.key -out /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem -days 730 Restart Dovecot: service dovecot restart
More and more internet access providers are closing port 25 to reduce spam except for connections to their own mail servers. If you run your own email server and have problems connecting to it on port 25, you can enable port 465 (SMTPS) in postfix as a workaround. Edit the /etc/postfix/master.cf file: nano /etc/postfix/master.cf and ... Read more
wrote by Rafael Marangoni, from Suporte Linux team. This article explains how to change the default PostgreSQL Locale. Be careful, because we're considering that you do not have data on the PostgreSQL instance. First, we need to stop the Postgres service (if was not already stopped): service postgresql stop Then we need to remove all ... Read more
There are three ways that an ISPConfig email user can use to change his email password (when he has no client login). Use the Mail user login in ISPConfig Email users can login to ISPConfig with their email address and mailbox password by using the normal ISPConfig GUI login. They will get logged into a ... Read more
wrote by Rafael Marangoni, from Consultoria Linux team. By default, on some distros, PostgreSQL will only accept connections from localhost. When you have only access from localhost (from localhost Apache, by example) everything is ok, but when you need that postgresql accepts connections for other hosts, you need to make some configs. First of all, ... Read more
Gmail is undoubtedly one of the most popular web-based email services today. One of the key factors that make Gmail so popular is its ease of use, which in turn is largely due to its user-friendly design and layout. While most of Gmail's features are easily accessible, the ability to save an email (or an ... Read more
Postfix provides several shell programs to manage the mail queue. These are: postsuper postqueue mailq In this tutorial, I will show you how to use these commands to manage the Postfix mail queue. Here are examples for common tasks: List all messages that are in the mail queue postqueue -p The output looks like this: ... Read more
Have you ever looked in the apache config files to see where a website's virtual host is defined? The apache2ctl script has a useful option that could come in good here. When you execute the command, it should look like this: apache2ctl -S You'll obtain a list of all virtual hosts and default servers in ... Read more
Hint: The procedure that is described below is for ISPConfig versions < 3.0.3. For newer ispconfig versions, use the builtin ssl certificate creation function of the ispconfig updater instead. The steps below should only be used to manually create a new SSL certificate in case that you can not run the updater on your installation. The ... Read more
Running a nightly backup script on a server system, such as a web hosting server, can result in a heavy load and longer latency for other processes, for example, HTML or .php pages load slowly during the backup because the backup script requires too many I/O or CPU resources. On Linux systems, two shell utilities ... Read more