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Quota Errors in Exim’s Panic Log

nessa • April 19, 2010

In cPanel 11.25, you may be seeing errors like this in /var/log/exim_paniclog: 2010-04-15 12:33:27 failed to expand condition “${if exists {$home/etc/$domain/quota}{${if > {${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{$home/etc/$domain/quota}{$value}{0}}}{0}{${if eq {${if exists {$home/mail/$domain/$local_part/maildirsize}{1}{0}}}{0}{${if > {${run {/usr/local/cpanel/bin/eximwrap GETDISKUSED $local_part $domain}}}{${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{$home/etc/$domain/quota}{$value}{0}}}{true}{false}}}{${perl{checkuserquota}{$domain}{$local_part}{$message_size}{${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{$home/etc/$domain/quota}{$value}}}{$home/mail/$domain/$local_part/maildirsize}}}}}{false}}}{false}}” for virtual_user_maildir_overquota router: absolute value of integer “10485760000” is too large (overflow) To fix this, run : /scripts/reset_mail_quotas_to_sane_values –force –confirm –verbose

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DNS, Mail

Localdomains vs. Remotedomains

Mark • April 6, 2010

Have you ever dealt with a user that pointed their MX records to another server but email from their website or other users on the same server isn’t going there? This is because Exim on is configured to use files called localdomains and remotedomains, which tell Exim whether a domain’s email is hosted locally or

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Apache, Apps, DNS, Howto, Linux, Mail, MySQL, PHP, Scripts

Re-Installing Auxiliary cPanel Software

nessa • April 1, 2010

Cpanel has a lot of supporting software that you may be using on your server. In case something goes amiss, here is a list of scripts that reinstall cpanel-provided software on your system. For most all of these, you can pass a –force as an argument to force a reinstall of the application. Update: Most

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Apps, Howto, Mail

Installing and Configuring Dovecot

nessa • March 26, 2010

Enabling Dovecot You can convert a server from cppop or Courier IMAP to dovecot by running the following command: /scripts/setupmailserver dovecot Configuring Dovecot Most relevant configurations can be made via WHM > Mailserver Configuration, but you can also change these via the config templates. You generally have to save the config via WHM at

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Mail, Troubleshooting

Understanding Dovecot IMAP and Maildir

nessa • March 23, 2010

Maildir (run by Courier IMAP or Dovecot) is a mail format used in conjunction with an MTA to store email on the server as separate files within folders. This post covers Courier IMAP as a service, not in terms of mail client usage. Directory Structure A user’s email is store in ”’/home/user/mail/<domain>/<emailuser>/…”’. Below is a

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Hacks, Howto, Mail

Modifying SMTP Relay Settings for Exim

nessa • February 23, 2010

cPanel’s stock installation of Exim includes a Tailwatchd driver called Antirelayd . Antirelayd is a daemon that checks /var/log/maillog for POP3 and IMAP logins and keeps track of valid logins for SMTP relaying. It reads /etc/relayhosts file automatically which is dynamically-updated, so any IPs that you add to this file will not be retained. By

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Howto, Mail

Opening an Additional Exim Port

nessa • January 27, 2010

When I was in technical support, I got at least a dozen or more calls a week about clients who couldn’t send email, but had no problem receiving. When incoming mail works fine but the client can’t connect to the SMTP server, 99.9999% of the time it’s being caused by the ISP blocking remote SMTP/port

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Howto, Mail

Changing Exim’s Sending IP

nessa • January 11, 2010

Anyone running a shared hosting server is probably now accustomed to dealing with constant complaints about blacklisting. It’s exim’s default setup on a cPanel server to use the shared IP of the server to send email, which means that all your clients on one server are sending out email on the same IP. All it

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Apps, Howto, Mail

Reinstalling Webmail

nessa • January 4, 2010

I've experienced from time to time a problem with webmail functioning after cPanel updates, particularly on larger servers. You can reinstall all three webmail applications, while not disrupting user content, with the following commands: Roundcube: /usr/local/cp The WordPress Classroom anel/bin/update-roundcube –force Horde: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/update-horde –force or /scripts/fullhordereset Squirrelmail /usr/local/cpanel/bin/update-squirrelmail –force zp8497586rq

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