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Help Fight Spam with Project Honey Pot!

Project Honey Pot allows owners of web sites to protect them against e-mail harvesters, dictionary attackers and comment spammers. Project Honey Pot is a global database with IPs of such abusers. In order block all access from malicious or suspicious IPs, you need to register at the project’s web site http://www.projecthoneypot.org and get the API key fromhttp://www.projecthoneypot.org/httpbl_configure.php.…

IP has been blacklisted, Help!

If you receive a bounced-back message saying that IP address X.X.X.X is blacklisted by a spam organization this means that the fore mentioned IP address has been blacklisted for sending unsolicited mail. Such a listing is caused by a complaint to the spam-fighting organization. Please make sure all your dns records are correct and matching.…

How to stop/fight spam?

If you are receiving too much spam in your mailbox, please consider enabling Spam Assassin. You can do this from: cPanel -> Mail -> SpamAssasin -> Enable SpamAssassin Spam Assassin is an automated mail filter that uses a wide range of heuristic algorithms on mail headers and message body text to identify “SPAM” (unsolicited email).…

How to change MySQL data directory to a new drive SSD in this case with minimal downtime?

Install a new drive, format, partition and mount it, say as ‘/ssd’. 1. Change directory to new partition/location # cd /ssd 2. Create new MySQL directory. mkdir mysql 3. Assign the MySQL group and owner for the new data directory. # chown -R mysql:mysql /ssd/mysql 4. Sync all the databases from old data dir to new…