I am in the process of moving websites and emails to a new host. I am doing the transfer manually because we are gradually moving different part of the site at one time to allow developers to work on new parts.
I now want to migrate all of the email accounts off the old cpanel server to the new cpanel host. What files and settings do I need to move so settings are not lost, such as save mail and contacts?
We transferred our accounts from cpanel to plesk with PMM.
Everything transferred successfully but one of our users checks his mails with webmail and he doesn’t have emails on his pc.
He contact us and said I need some that emails but when we transferred the accounts to plesk that emails not transferred,
Can I transfer his mails manually?
when I ask a hosting company to take over the domain and hosting of another supplier, what happens with the emails during the transfer ? If the client has his mails set up at his current hosting, how does the new hosting accept the mails once it is transfered? Will there be a period when no emails arrive? And do we lose them?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have been used to transfering accounts from one WHM/cPanel server to another - easy-peasy
What is involved with moving accounts from a WHM/cPanel server to a server/vps running Plesk?
I am trying to transfer someone from Plesk 8.2.1 to cPanel/WHM 11.23. The client that is on Plesk does not seem to have root access because I tried the WHM built in transfer from another server feature and it wasnt working. It said password was incorrect but it was the main password.
So any thoughts on how i can transfer everything safely?
I have a client moving their email-only hosting account from Plesk 8 to cPanel 11.
Is there a function in Plesk control panel for backing up the email accounts and can I then import the backup into cPanel to make the process smooth? Or, can I do it only manually?
I have 2 cPanel servers with root access and I want to move a reseller account (and about 100 very small domain accounts under it) to the other server. What is the best way to do this and how would be the process ? I guess there is an easier way to migrate it rather than by moving individual domain accounts.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI run a free webhosting company, and I would like to email all of my users (they accepted this by signing up with my services) a monthly newsletter. I do not wish to use the WHM Email All Users function, but rather use a third party tool.
Is there a way to export ALL of the email accounts of my users
my control panel is: Cpanel
when somebody send me a wrong email , that will go to my Default address
example , my website name is : "test.com" and my website user : "test"
now , if somebody send a mail to 4444442342343@test.com that mail will go to my default address: " test "
i have a 50.000 emails in my default address
how can i delete complete that emails?
is there anyway for delete much email?
I would like to offer some good advice to people who Host thier sites with Hostgator or any other Webhosts who provide Cpanel. Please Check your "Mail" feature.
I just check all of my sites Mail in the Mail section.
All of my sites do not have webmail set up, but I was surprised to find tens of thousans of spam mails and I dont even have any email accounts set up!
This was causing me to get 'iNode" warnings that my account would be soon suspended and I should upgrade my site to Dedicated Hosting, something I cannot afford!
Go to [url]
Steps
1. Click on Mail
2. Click on Webmail
3. Click on Horde
4. Login
5. Click on Mail
SURPRISE! Do you too have thousands of Spams ... even if you dont even have an email account set up?
If you folder is full of thousands of Spams then do this...
6. Click on Folders
7. Tick Inbox
8. Choose Empy Folders from the Drop Down box above
9. Click Empty Selected Folders
10. Do this regularly before you get an email from Hostgator like this:
Quote:
WARNING: gator85.hostgator.com: comscout: 63970 inodes
Server: gator85
User: xxxxx
Email: xxxxx(Owner)
iNodes: 63970 (warning)
Date: Sun Jul 27 00:22:59 CDT 2008
Email: xxxx
Account Name: xxxxx
Server: gator85.hostgator.com
iNodes (Files): 63970/50,000 (127.00%)
Hello,
To maintain the highest level of performance on our shared servers we have a maximum inode (file) limit of 50,000 inodes (files) per account. The size of the file does not matter, only the number of files. For example, a DVD image (say, 4.5gb) only counts as one inode, or file. Our limit, as outlined in our terms of service, is 50,000 files per account. We generally don't hold people strictly to this limit, but at the same time we expect our users to respect the limits of the system. When an account has hundreds of thousands of files, it significantly degrades overall disk performance, as each file on the disk must be tracked/indexed.
An easy analogy would be a table of contents or glossary for a book. If the book only has a few hundred pages, the index or glossary is likely to be small and easy to search. If the book has 5,000 pages, finding what you want might take significantly longer. The file system on a server works in a similar way, just on a larger scale. Our experience has shown that 50,000 files per account is a fair number, and accounts that exceed that by a significant amount cause disk performance issues. This message is to inform you that the listed account has significantly exceeded our limits for disk inodes/files and could potentially lead to disk issues.
It is also important to realize that accounts that exceed the inode (file) limit are not backed up by our courtesy weekly backup service, per section 7b of our Terms of Service. Of course, we advise every user to run their own backups to be safe. Accounts over our the 50,000 inode limit are bypassed so that backups can complete in a timely fashion for everyone. Otherwise, accounts with hundreds of thousands or more inodes will utilize more server resources than other accounts, and could lead to file system errors on our backup servers.
This account will be re-checked again in 7 days to verify it is below 50,000 files. If this account remains above the maximum inode limit after repeated checks, we'll have to review the situation further and advise a course of action. It is critical that one of the following actions take place before that happens:
a) reduce the number of inodes/files. This change must be permanent; if you have a high number of cache files or similar, and you expect them to naturally exceed the inode limit again in the future, the configuration must be changed to limit the total number of cached files.
If you are completely unaware of the source of the inodes, it may be that you have left your default mailbox enabled, and never cleared it. Over time, it can fill up with spam, consuming hundreds of thousands of inodes. If you have a catch-all enabled on your account, this can greatly increase the amount of mail/spam that our account receives and will raise your inode usage quickly unless routinely emptied. If you would like assistance clearing these folders from unwanted email or removing the catch-all from your account, please let us know and we would be happy to assist you.
The default mailbox is located at:
/home/xxxx/mail/cur
/home/xxxxx/mail/new
b) upgrade to dedicated service, where inode counts are no longer checked. In many cases, accounts that significantly exceed our inode/file limits have simply outgrown the shared environment, and a dedicated server is the logical choice. In many cases, the transfer from a shared to dedicated server will incur no charge. In rare situations, accounts with excessive numbers of accounts or users may require a fee; the transfer department would advise you of that fact prior to the transfer taking place. If you've read this far, it's clear you're serious about taking care of the issue and we can offer you 50% off off the first month's purchase of a dedicated server. To receive the discount, please:
- Reply to this email stating you'd like to upgrade. You will
automatically be assigned a ticket number, which will be
visible in the subject line. You may need to confirm your
email if this is the first time you've ever sent us a
ticket or emailed one of our departments.
- Order a dedicated server:
[url]
- Email sales@hostgator.com after placing your order. This
promotion is unadvertised, and must be manually approved.
You must reference the ticket # you receive (above) to
qualify for the discounted rate. This promotion only
applies to dedicated servers priced $ 219.00 or higher.
We thank you for taking the time to resolve this issue. If you have any questions or perhaps you are not sure what could be causing the high number of inodes, we can help you with that. Simply reply to this email and we will be more than happy to assist you.
As soon as I deleted all of my emails, guess what .... I already have 4 Spam emails, that is very quick!
I have 4 main sites with hostgator and this how much emails I have without knowing:
Site 1: 27,237 Spam Emails
Site 2: 43,438 Spam Emails
Site 3: 7,398 Spam Emails
Site 4: 63,972 Spam Emails
This is who one Spam was from:
To: myaccount@gator257.hostgator.com
So the spammers send the emails to gator257.hostgator.com and so forth!
That is crap! Surely they can fix it, as I say, I dont even have a email account in my Cpanel!
How can I disable cpanel from sending me this email about my server running low on space, still 5GB free. It gets annoying
Drive Space Critical on server.com
I´m gonna migrate my server with Plesk 8.4 to Cpanel 11.24 in the next days using a manual method (account transfer failed in my test, i guess it is not fully functional).
Creation of accounts and migration of databases is already done, but i have some doubts with email account transfers:
1) Cpanel and Plesk, share the maildir format for messages. A transfer of email messages should be smooth, just copying the data of this directory´s.
Plesk directory: /var/qmail/mailnames/domain.com/user/Maildir/
Cpanel directory: /home/domain/mail/domain.com/user
Is it ok?
2) Is there any way of migrate usernames/passwords to cpanel without recreate accounts (with a new password) and copy the email messages?
I have noticed on my two dedicated servers logs that some emails just dissapear after being frozen for days in queue and there is no notice or warning sent to the sender.
Please check your logs and tell me if I am wrong, just check for non-zero on your exim_mainlog
grep non-zero /var/log/exim_mainlog
and then grep your messageId
grep 1K17WW-0002so-Sn /var/log/exim_mainlog
2008-05-24 17:34:23 1K17WW-0002so-Sn == vicoello@xxxxx.com R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (-1): smtp transport process returned non-zero status 0x000e: terminated by signal 14
2008-05-24 17:34:23 1K17WW-0002so-Sn Frozen
2008-05-25 18:02:27 1K17WW-0002so-Sn Message is frozen
...
2008-05-26 22:08:47 1K17WW-0002so-Sn Message is frozen
....
2008-05-27 15:00:31 1K17WW-0002so-Sn Message is frozen
? Dissapeared
what happens to the emails sent in excess of "The maximum each domain can send out per hour" limit that you can set in root WHM?
Are they discarded or get queued up in Exim?