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Is there a "for dummies" way to install Spam Assassin? I've never had issues installing SA until this time .... and I'm kinda at a loss. I've tried all of the suggestions in http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=36 and every thing I try I am getting errors that prevent me from installing it...

Hello I am urgently looking for an easy way to delete all emails older than 60 days off a server. If anybody could point me in the right direction, I'd be very greatful. There are several user accounts, each with several email users - most have just been collecting email for many months now...

Just wondering if anybody can give me any unbiased input which would be the better app to refer to my clients, or give me any partial lists of pros/cons? Thanks

Hello as of lately I am encountering many of my servers where the default email account will send mail fine, but receives none, because the email is coming from "username@localhost" Here is the header of an email the client sent me. You can see it lists her email address as "nora@localhost"...

Hello I am trying to add a domain to a server, and I am getting the following errors: Error Creating Domain Details Unable to write user's httpd.conf Unable to read gamblers-choice.com.conf file Unable to read putty.exe.conf file Unable to read sb20up.zip.conf file Unable to read...

Hey guys I have a VPS that I am trying to migrate/merge with another VPS (both running directadmin/centos5) I created a full backup of the VPS I wish to migrate, and sent it to the other VPS via FTP ... I tried to restore it on the other VPS, using Admin Backup/Transfer, and nothing .... no...

It was brought to my attention today, that all users on a shared host can access each other's MySQL databases ... What the _______ is this all about? REALLY??? :mad: My client was able to take full control of other users' databases via phpmyadmin Please tell me how do we fix this MASSIVE...

I have a client who has decided to change the name of his website. How do I move all of the data currently in oldsite.com to newsite.com? thanks!

I notice that in the new version of DA, the server reports to the admin any user that sends more than 1000 emails. Are we able to adjust this number somewhere, and are we able to physically throttle the number of emails a user account may send? thanx!

I am desperately trying to create a simple HTML form that will allow a user to login to their DA panel from a remote location I previously was using a dropdown menu with predefined server URLs listed, but for security/privacy issues, would like to be able to have only clients who can provide a...

ok .... as I am rolling out update 1.35.0 across my 37 servers, most of them are giving me error messages about something needs my attention ... It seems that all apache owned files are now preventing proper backups from running. :eek: Now they say the solution is to go and change the...

Anybody know what happened to the AWStats files that custombuild relied on? Trying to install AWStats today, I got this error : --18:47:20-- http://files.directadmin.com/services/all/awstats-6.9.tar.gz Resolving files.directadmin.com... 72.35.85.222 Connecting to...

I received this notice in my email pertaining to one of my DirectAdmin servers: This is an automated message notifying you that an error has occurred while trying to update the software. The generated error message is as follows: Error restoring file /usr/local/directadmin/update.tar.gz ...

For the last two or three days now, I am receiving SMS messages every hour (on the exact same minute) that 'directadmin' service is down ... www.a1websolutions.com/apollo.png When I log in, all services are running .. And every hour, (on a different minute), I get an SMS that mysql service is...

After migrating two servers to new machines, the email on both new servers is borked, and my clients are not receiving ANY mail. Martynas (smtalk) rebuilt the mail services today, but I am still getting clients complaining they have no email. Martynas is unavailable now, so I was wondering if...