Guys you have to check this out

I thought that the premier plesk package was free, but it's not

I think that Plesk is really NEAT, however I find it useless to pay for the spamassassin license, when spamassassin it's free

I mean, read this post, and tell me your opinions.

I am just trying to show you, all the goodies of the net. combined with plesk, you've got a great server, easy to administer, and yes, not expensive.


First of all, go to www.webmin.com
Make sure to go to 'documents', and read 'how to use SSL with webmin'

Install it, and there you have, Webmail interface for spamassassin!
(install time, 5 minutes, encrypted= yes)

Then, go to www.qmailrocks.org
Here iswhat you'll have

Qmail (with 18 patches to have a rock solid, anti-spam qmail)
RBL lists support
Vpopmail (makes administering domains a breeze)
Vpoadmin (webmin interface)
Squirremail (read mails online)
Qmailadmin (add and edit users, forwards)administer qmail options online, really neat)
Vacation Auto-response
EZLM (Mailing list, free, nice, controlled via qmailadmin)
Qtrap (filter spam based on specific keywords, with whitelist support)
SpamAssassin (with options like: delete mail, quarantine mail, drop mail based on the rate of it)
Free qmailrocks forums, newsletter for support
Option to 'teach' spamassassin how to learn from certain spams that may have been filtered
Quota support
Free ClamAV Antivirus. Passes at least 22 of the 25 viruses at testvirus.org
See the and manage mail queue
Courier-imap, imaps
Beautifull, customizable, Qmail addons:
* You can see via web (with MRTMG graphics) the ammount of bandwidth that qmail users
* You can see via web the users that consume more resources
and much more... (like monthly updates of the packages, step by step install guide)

***MOD-EDIT***[sales link removed...lets keep this forum a friendly helpfull one..not a send me X bucks and I will do it for you]***/MOD-EDIT***

however, I think qmailrocks.org is so easy to setup, I don't want anybody to contact me regarding this. I will charge, because it takes a good 3-4 hours to install this. However, it's NOT that I want to make money out of this.

My ONLY intention, is, to show you, how you can install your own Qmail with web administration, secure, easy, and most importantly, for a price you can afford: 4 good hours reading about qmail.

ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Just to double check the files that qmail uses, put this:

rpm -qa | grep qmail
psa-qmail-rblsmtpd-0.70-rhel3.build71040817.01
drweb-qmail-4.31-rhel3.build71040817.01
psa-qmail-1.03-rhel3.build71040817.01

for instance, if you want to know which files your original qmail uses, type this
rpm -ql psa-qmail-1.03-rhel3.build71040817.01[i]

Now, let's backup the original qmail, courier-imap, spamassassin, and psa-spamassassin packages.

[i]cd /home
mkdir backup
cd backup
mkdir original
cd original


This will backup your qmail:

tar cvzpf psa-qmail-1.03-rhel3.build71040817.01.tgz /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/share/doc/psa-qmail-1.03/* /var/qmail/*


This will backup your spamassassin:

tar cpvzf spamassassin-2.63-0.2.tgz /etc/mail/spamassassin/* /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin /usr/bin/sa-learn /usr/bin/spamassassin /usr/bin/spamc /usr/bin/spamd /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/* /usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.63/* /usr/share/man/man1/sa-learn.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/spamassassin.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/spamc.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/spamd.1.gz /usr/share/spamassassin/* /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::SpamAssassin*

This will backup your courier-imap:

tar cpvzf courier-imap-3.0.3-rhel3.build71040817.01.tgz /etc/init.d/courier-imap /etc/pam.d/imap /etc/pam.d/pop3 /etc/profile.d/courier-imap.csh /etc/profile.d/courier-imap.sh /usr/lib/courier-imap/* /usr/share/doc/courier-imap-3.0.3/*

This will backup your psa-courier-imap-add-7.1.2-rhel3.build71040817

tar cvpzf psa-courier-imap-add-7.1.2-rhel3.build71040817.01.tgz /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authpsa


Now, we'll backup our courier, spamassassin, psa-spamassassin and qmail directories

Qmail


cd /var
mv -v qmail qmail.bak

Courier imap


cd /usr/lib/
mv -v courier-imap courier-imap.bak
cd /etc/profile.d/
mkdir backup
mv courier-imap.* backup/
cd /etc/pam.d/
mkdir backup
mv -v imap pop3 backup/


Spamassassin

cd /etc/mail
mv -v spamassassin spamassassin.bak
mv -v /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin.bak
cd /usr/bin/
mkdir backup
mv -v sa-learn spamassassin spamc spamd backup/
mv -v /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm.bak
mv -v /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.bak
mv -v /usr/share/spamassassin /usr/share/spamassassin.bak


Now, let's remove the init scripts from the original files

cd /etc/init.d
mkdir backup
mv -vf qmail courier-imap spamassassin psa-spamassassin backup/

cd /etc/rc3.d/

rm -v S80qmail S80courier-imap S80spamassassin S81psa-spamassassin


Now let's install Qmail...
[i]mkdir /downloads

cd /downloads

wget http://www.qmailrocks.org/downloads/qmailrocks.tar.gz

tar zxvf qmailrocks.tar.gz[i]

Now go to this URL http://www.qmailrocks.org/qmail.htm

And proceed with the installation. You should be set in 2-4 hours. Depending if you do all the reading

This is something that can't be put on Plesk server, I will give you two main reasons:

1. With this you will break EV1 support
2. vpopmail is not compatible with Plesk, Plesk is on courier-imap stuff

Well the benefits of this is that you can configure Spamassassin, install Qtrap (which is great in filtering spam, based on keywords, with whitelist support), and, you can manage everything from an internet site, web based control panel.

there are other cute things as well

For instance, I configure the service so that all my incoming mail will be copied to my cell phone.

I can make a vacation message.

I can create mailing lists with EZLM which is a really neat program.

And apart from that issue, I can configure SpamAssassin to label my emails as:

SPAM: LOW
SPAM: MEDIUM
SPAM: HIGH

Spamassassin will also delete spams with a higher number (say 6 points), and just reject messages with a higher number (say 7)

I can also check the Qmail activity in neatly reporter graphics (with mrtmg), receive a nighly report on all my qmail activity, check my queue (if I need to delete something), and know the daily, monthly... ammount of MB that each mailbox uses.

And the coolest things of all, I can bounce my mail with a personalized address, andI can also tell Qmail to stop sending viruses alarms to the senders.

Have you noticed, how annoying is to receive a "you sent a virus to juan@noidea.com, with contain the WOrm1.12.beagle...."

At least my server won't do that with other emails, since the address is probably not sure.

I can also tell ClamAV to stop mails with ZIPs (that contain password), and I can also check the ClamAV details and configure the antivirus through Webmin.

Regarding to your question:

I can always return to the backups I made (basically all I have to do is rneame the qmail directory, the courier-imap directory), and then I'll have the system as I found it.

But why would I do that with all these goodies?

I have just configured a dedicated mail server with plesk 7.5.2 +qmail+courier imap.
But now i want to install the packages from qmailrocks.How do i do that with out loosing any mails as the mail server is live. Or can i intigrate vpop +qmailadmin and other goodies wiht plesk itself.

Rohit Baisakhiya.

vpopmail/qmailadmin/... can't be implemented into Plesk environment

Maybe I am missing something in your point but paying for the Plesk Premier upgrade is not "paying for a spamassassin lincense".



Most everything in the package is open source. But the integration into Plesk is what is being licensed by Plesk.

Wake up !!
Its over a year Plesk Use this Marketing tactics.. lol

I found this pretty bad also.. I have dropped all my Owned licence since..