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How to change the welcome email message text in ISPConfig 3

Till — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:00:05 +0000

As of ISPConfig 3.0.4, the text of the welcome email message that is sent to new email accounts is stored in the folder /usr/local/ispconfig/server/conf/mail/.

The message has this format:

————————————————————————
From: ISPConfig
Subject: Welcome to your new email account.

Welcome to your new email account. Your webmaster.
————————————————————————

The first line starts with “From: ” followed by the sender email address. The second line starts with “Subject: ” followed by the email subject. The third line should be empty. All following lines are the email text.

The email text files are named “welcome_email_.txt” where has to be replaced with the system language like “en” for English or “de” for German language, e.g. “welcome_email_en.txt” for the english welcome email.

The customized language file should be stored in the folder /usr/local/ispconfig/server/conf-custom/mail/ so that it does not get overwritten by ISPConfig updates.

How to Configure a Mail Account in Thunderbird on Linux

CSch — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:31:33 +0000

To add a mail account to your Thunderbird, go to Edit > Account Settings…

and hit the Account Actions button beneath the menu on the left.

Select Add Mail Account… and enter the name that will be shown to others, the email address that you want to add to Thunderbird and its password.
Hit Continue and Thunderbird should automatically search for your address on the given server. If it is not found you can also configure it manually. Select the IMAP radiobox as recommended to be able to view your mail on multiple computers and hit Create Account.
You should now be able to access your email account via Thunderbird. If this is still not the case you may have to complete your account name so that it is identical with your email address.

How to enable port 587 (submission) in postfix

Till — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:36:13 +0000

Some internet access providers have port 25 disabled in their routers to prevent spam. If you run your own mailserver in a datacenter, you might have to enable the submission port (587) in postfix to be able to send emails from your local email client to your own mailserver.

To enable port 587, edit the file /etc/postfix/master.cf

vi /etc/postfix/master.cf

and remove the # in front of the line:

#submission inet n – n – – smtpd

so that it looks like this:

submission inet n – n – – smtpd

and restart postfix:

/etc/init.d/postfix restart

How to renew the SSL certificate for dovecot on CentOS

Till — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:00:08 +0000

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:

/etc/init.d/dovecot restart