Real-time blacklists (or real-time blocklists or real-time blackhole lists) are lists of malicious/spammer IPs. These lists are maintained by organizations like The Spamhaus Project . The EXIM server will check the sender of emails against the selected lists. If the…

Dovecot is a very used open-source IMAP and POP3 server. By default, the email ports are: Mail ProtocolPortPOP3 (Post Office Protocol)110IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)143POP3S (POP3 over SSL/TLS)995IMAPS (IMAP over SSL/TLS)993Email protocols/ports There can be cases where you might want…

DirectAdmin Log Viewer lets you inspect the most important log files from your server. If you prefer the GUI over the command line, you might want to add files to the DA list. The default list with log files is…

DirectAdmin offers a simple File Editor utility that you can use to quickly edit important files. You can access it in DA >> System Info & Files >> File Editor. Notice that is accessible only to admin users. As you'll…

You may come to a situation where you want to block a user from sending emails. You don't want to block the ability to check for emails, only the ability to sent emails. DirectAdmin through SpamBlocker has 3 blocking files…

DirectAdmin allows changing the docroot of a subdomain from the user account. For the default domain, the subdomain directory will be: /home/USERNAME/domains/DOMAIN.COM/public_html/SUBDOMAIN Changing this can be useful if you want to put the subdomain's directory outside of the public_html of…