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A cron is run every 30 minutes to check on virus database updates via /etc/cron.d/drweb-update, which sends an email every 30 minutes to the plesk server admin. Most of our customers don’t like the behavior.

To resolve, direct the output to /dev/null or to a log file instead if you need to keep a watch on the updates.

1. Edit /etc/cron.d/drweb-update redirecting the output to /dev/null

vi /etc/cron.d/drweb-update

2. Add the following line

*/30 * * * * drweb /opt/drweb/update.pl >/dev/null 2>&1

This would direct all out put from the drweb update script to /dev/null (trash)

This howto describes howto get rid of the horrible mboxes for mail which confixx uses by default. Converting all your mailboxes to the maildir format also allows you to use imap. Please make backups of your confixx installation before you begin with this howto you have been warned:

1. Edit your confixx main.conf

vi /root/confixx/confixx_main.conf

When your finished this is what it should look like:

$maildrop = ‘HOMEDIR/Maildir/’;
$mailBoxName = ‘Maildir’;
$pop_homeDir = ‘/var/mail’; //specify folder where you want maildirs to be stored. the folder must exist
$mail_realHome = ’1′;

2. Edit your postfix main.cf

vi /etc/postfix/main.cf

And add the following line:

home_mailbox = Maildir/

3. Edit your procmailrc

vi /etc/procmailrc

And add the following line:

DEFAULT=”$HOME/Maildir/”

4. Run the confixx counterscript

/root/confixx/confixx_counterscript.pl –fa -dbg

5. Convert existing Mboxes to Maildir. Confixx provides a script for doing this. Run the script and make sure to answer all the questions. Or except the defaults which should be ok.

/root/confixx/admin/contrib/convert_mb2md.pl

6. If you are using qpopper uninstall it and install courier pop and imap if you need imap. This is for debian and ubuntu:

aptitude purge openbsd-inetd qpopper
aptitude install courier-pop
aptitude install courier-imap

Thats it check you log files send a test mail and enjoy.

By default Plesk administrator’s email address is listed in:

/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon
/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster
/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root

You can edit these files and set the email address you need.

I received this error message after updating a Confixx Server to Debian Lenny when you try an run the Confixx counter script. This is how to fix the problem:

1. Change into the Confixx Admin directory

cd /root/confixx/admin/CPAN

2. Unpack the updater archive

tar -xzf Updater-1.0.6.tar.gz

3. Change into the directory

cd Updater-1.0.6

4. Then build the updater package

perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

This lead to a new error:

Can't locate XML/DOM.pm

5. To get rid of these errors you need to install the following packages;

aptitude install libxml-dom-perl libproc-process-perl

Thats it you should be able to run you Confixx Counter script again give it a try:

/root/confixx/confixx_counterscript.pl --dbg --force-all

Confixx can handle IDN (international domain names) domains including Umlaute (ä,ü,ö). Normally you should be able to type your domain into the Confixx webinterface including (ä,ü,ö) and Confixx should generate punycode for the apache vhost config and the dns zone files. This stopped working in Debian Lenny due to the apache package in Lenny which was compiled with LANG=C. To get this function to work again open the following file with your favorite editor:

vi /var/www/confixx/html/include/idn_functions.php

If you are using Suse you will need to look under /srv/www. And add the following line at the top of the file under the comments:

setlocale(LC_ALL, "de_DE.UTF-8");

Thats it IDN domains should work again.