There are always problems with upgrading server appliance software because of the amount of different configurations there are. more »
Category: "Plesk"
Plesk provided mail list capabilities via MailMan which is one of those Unix programs (services) that has just been around forever. The software is pretty much rock solid and hasn't been updated in ages. It does what it says on the tin. It allows users t… more »
Creating a MySQL user that can only access a particular database instance, is a bit tricky to do from the MySql command line. Fortunately, the people at Plesk have added it into the appliance administration software.
Previous incantations of the Plesk… more »
A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded one of my Plesk boxes from 8.6.0 to 9.0.0 to 9.0.1 to 9.2.1. All of the upgrade went really well, and everything seemed to work.
A week or 2 later, I had a report that all the Mailman lists weren't working. One could… more »
Occasionally a user will receive so much email that it blows the file system limit for a domain. This can be because they haven't picked up their mail for a while or the domain has fallen into disuse.
Usually when you tell the user they have 6,000 ema… more »