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ListMailPRO Email Marketing Software Forums => General Help & How-To => Topic started by: paul on July 27, 2007, 11:57:48 am
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I'm moving all my accounts from my 2001 Pentium 3 to a Dual Core. My host requires me to go from Cpanel to Plesk. I previously had Exim configured using Dean's settings, it worked like a charm is there any customization need on Plesk.
Anybody run into any problems when migrating like this?
Any input is much appreciated.
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Greetings,
I recommend, at minimum, applying the following optimizations to a Plesk server:
http://listmailpro.com/forum/index.php?topic=48.0
PHP "Safe Mode" should be disabled in the "Setup" options for each ListMail domain.
To setup bounce.cgi you must chmod 755 /var/www/vhosts/DOMAIN/cgi-bin and create a file in /var/qmail/mailnames/DOMAIN.com named .qmail-bounce containing:
|/usr/bin/perl /var/www/vhosts/DOMAIN.com/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi
For large volume sending (>20k/day) there are some special qmail patches I recommend which I can be employed to compile.
Please let me know if I can be of further assistance!
Regards
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Hey Dean,
1,000 Thanks for taking the time.
My list is 146,000 in size. I have to migrate because my host only uses Plesk now and I am in desperate need of a server upgrade. I'm still running RH 7.3. I'm also moving to CentOS.
What special patches do you recommend for qmail to make listmailpro work like a charm?
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Here's how to apply the qmail "bigext-todo" (to prevent "silly qmail syndrome") and "outgoingip" patches (set IP in /var/qmail/control/outgoingip) as well as further split the queue folders for better performance with large #s of messages in queue.
# shutdown qmail
service qmail stop
killall qmail-remote
# make sure no more qmail processes
ps auxw | grep qmail
# get and compile patches with my super-easy script
cd /usr/src
wget http://lmhost.com/mf-qmail.tgz
tar xzf mf-qmail.tgz
cd mf-qmail
./cmd 8 199 #(Plesk 8.x)
cd qmail-1.03
make setup check
cd ..
./queue_repair.py -r
Next, follow the maillog while sending a test message to make sure things are working.
tail -f /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog
Ctrl-C exits
Also contained in the archive is a script "iprotate.php" that can be run to rotate email through all IPs on the server every X seconds. The benefits of this are overrated, I believe. (If you do it make sure you have proper reverse PTR entries for all IPs or set them in the excludes() array in the script)
Regards :D
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Hi Dean,
Can I pay for you to do this for me? How do I submit such an order? I probably won't be migrated until late this week or early next week.
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Paul,
When you are ready, simply set up a request for a Server Analysis (http://listmailpro.com/support?t=analysis). Mention this post in the notes and I will do this and other optimizations.
Regards
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As soon as I learn of my date for migration, I'll set it up with you.
1000 Thanks! You Da man as usual!