If you have a Plesk server where short mail names are enabled, upgrading to Plesk 8.4 can cause some issues. Valid logins may be rejected, and they’ll appear in your /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog as “no such user”. You can correct the issue by switching to long mail names (click Server -> Mail in Plesk), or [...]
Some of you may have already noticed from my Twitter feed, but I’ve started a complete re-write of pleskhacker.com in an easier-to-use format. The old site was done in Dokuwiki, and I found that it didn’t scale too well. The new site uses Wordpress, and the performance is already improving.
Another improvement to the [...]
I found a Plesk 8.3 server running RHEL 4 last month that was presenting errors when users attempted to send e-mail via SquirrelMail:
ERROR:
Email delivery error
Server replied: 127 Can’t execute command ‘/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t -fsomeuser@somedomain.com’.
The error was appearing because safe_mode was enabled and SquirrelMail was unable to drop e-mails into /usr/sbin/squirrelmail. After disabling safe_mode on [...]
If you have Plesk 8.1 or later, you have support available for Ruby on Rails. Unfortunately, clicking the FastCGI checkbox in Plesk won’t get you all of the support you need (and expect). The folks over at Parallels created a relatively simple process to get Ruby on Rails working properly on your site:
Go [...]
If you recently upgraded to Plesk 8.4.0 with short names enabled, you may have found that it’s working with SMTP, but it doesn’t work with POP3 or IMAP. There’s a bug in the Plesk version that prevents the courier configuration from being updated.
To correct the issue, first make sure that Plesk has short names [...]