jandafields

No problem. Glad to be of assistance. By the way, my name is Josh. Janda is actually "J and A"

I use SpamAssassin with required_hits=4.5 Everything marked as spam is deleted before it gets to me. I have not used auto learning or anything else extra. I also edited all rules dealing with body parts and their growth and changed their score to 5 so they are definately deleted. This has almost completely elimated my spam. I get very very little now. I am real happy with SpamAssassin.

If this is just for every once in a while, you could ftp the directory to your computer and zip it up from there. Or, if you want the server to do it, run the following commands with a cron job or whatever: This archives all the files in the dir into one file, and compresses the new file: >tar -czvf /home/user/output_filename.tgz /home/user/public_html/whatever_dir/ Notice the output file comes first, and the dir to be compressed is second in the command.

There are lots of free php / mysql guestbook programs on the Internet you can download. Some will work better than CPanel's. And, with the proper configuration, you can have as many seperate guestbooks as you want.

The title of your thread should be 99.9999%, not 99.999% Having an accuracy of 1 in 1-million is impossible. I say this because spam is starting to look more and more like personal messages from friends: I have seen spam like this, and friends have sent me stuff like this. How is a computer possibly going to tell the difference? Will it do good with topics that is well-known to be spam? Well, what if 2 friends are actually writing back and forth with links to websites for certain body part enlargements? How could the computer possibly know that this is not spam? I'm sticking with initial thought that those stats are definately impossible...

That makes sense, thanks! One more question: Why are there three numbers here (see below)? >Load Averages 1.01 0.52 0.40

I still don't think it would happen. There's a lot of servers at TCH. Plus, there would still be no way to make everyone happy concerning plugins. As long as things are working without issues, why risk something going wrong on a server-wide update on something as important as email? One little typo in the config, and then many unhappy customers... Also, sqmail didn't make most of those plugins. They are contributions from users, so they could contain insecure code, putting us all at risk. If my own install of sqmail has poorly written plugins, there would be a big risk for me, but not so big for anyone else. And if mine does cause a problem for others, my account is suspended, and everyone else goes on happily.

In cpanel, I can see the server load is usually between 0.4 and 1.50 On the tchstatus page, the servers are usually below 500.0 Why are the numbers on tchstatus so much higher than in cpanel? And, what is considered good?

Something's definately wrong. You better contact MS. They won't be happy with that weird behavior.

That's probably not feasible. I bet the next upgrade of cPanel would over right it anyway. Installing Squirell Mail in your own account is fairly simple though.

Someone has actually bid on this for $100,000.

Actually, Microsoft has made this a standard feature now. It comes bundled with all versions of Windows.

About two or three times a day, windows installer comes up and installs my HP Printer/Scanner. It goes through the install, and is successful. A little bit later, there it goes again...

Someone please correct me if I am wrong. This information applies to linux webservers in general. Having something above the public_html only protects it from web browsers - NOT OTHER SERVER USERS! (Although there are policies and possibly laws forbidding accessing other people's stuff.) If you have a file called script.php in /home/userid directory, and the file is owned by you, and the file has 777 permissions, then anyone on the server can access, execute, modify, or delete it if they know the name of it. (They would have to know the name of the file because they would not be able to get a directory listing of the userid folder unless you changed your default permissions on that directory) If the file is owned by nobody, then those same things applies, except it doesn't matter what the permissions are, since everybody has access to nobody.

Wow! I've never noticed the help desk link up there on top. I have always left the forums and gone through the home page to find it. That is a very handy thing to know now!

Bruce, was your successful test on the TCH server?

Okay, you win. I guess MikeJ and myself were incorrect. Thanks for the info!

Hmmm... Seems to be some differing opinions among people here.

Hmmm... According to the linux documentation:

If it is not phychic, then how did it know I was thinking belly button lint??? This is AMAZING!!! Truely amazing. I would love to see the coding to this program. I figured there would be no way it could guess "belly button lint". Amazing! I'll be quiet now...

According to official linux handbooks, chown can only be run by a superuser (root), as TCH-MikeJ said. I just wanted to mention that this is a restriction of linux, not the hosting company. I find it odd that linux does not allow a user to "give away" a file, but that's how it works...

I've always used a notepad text file and then compressed with a password into RAR format. I like to live on the cutting edge ot technology, you know

What is the purpose of that survey?

It looks like to me that this spam and ham might be okay as long as they don't cause issues.

You need to chmod your spam folder to 777 so that it can be deleted in the script. The other mail folders can be 755, because they are being read, not written to. Also, $HOME has a different meaning when ran through php that when it is used with cron, so use the absolute path instead of $HOME.