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How to hide the user interface elements related to mail services from the Control Panel:

1. In the Server Administration Panel, go to Settings > Mail Server Settings (in the Mail group
2. Clear the Enable mail management functions in Panel checkbox.
3. Click OK.

Alternately, you can hide these elements by using the server_pref command line utility:

On Linux systems

If you need to restore the mail management controls, you can do so either by going to Server Administration Panel > Settings > Mail Server Settings, and selecting the Enable mail management functions in Panel checkbox, or by using the command line utility:

On Linux systems

Reference: http://parallels.net/

Delivering mail to local mail server if your DNS is hosted on remote Cpanel VSP

Login to WHM and go to “DNS Functions” and select “Edit a DNS Zone”

Select the zone to edit and then select the “Edit” button.

Once the next screen appears scroll down to the “Record Type” MX and change the value to mail.serverbuddies.com.

Change the “Record Type” to “A” for mail and add the IP address of your local mailserver in the box to the right of the “CNAME” record type.

Now DNS server will instruct mail servers on the internet to deliver mail to your local mail server.

Edit the file /etc/localdomains and remove the domain name for which you want email delivered locally.

Edit the file /etc/remotedomains and add the domain name which we removed from /etc/localdomains

Now local (cpanel) mail server (Exim) will route all email originating from the local server to the remote mail server.

Checking your outgoing mail server (Is Port 25 blocked?)

Many email clients and services use port 25 for SMTP to send out emails. However an ISP (Internet Service Provider) may block port 25 in order to prevent spamming by its customers. Here is how you can check to see if port 25 is blocked on your network.

1. Type the following command:

2. View Results:
If port 25 is not blocked you will get a successful 220 response (text may vary).

If port 25 is blocked you will get a connection error or no response at all.

hotmail and yahoo mail spam flagging issue

If you have more than one domain on your server it is better to use our SPF Record to fix this issue.

For example:

Server is sending mail as mail.serverbuddies.com but when the receiving mail server performs a reverse PTR lookup, it finds serverbuddies.com MISMATCH The solution would then be to tell qmail that it is sending mail as domain.com instead of mail.serverbuddies.com.

Here is the fix.

Enable Alternate Port other than 25 or 587 (via SSH) in Plesk

Make a copy of /etc/xinetd.d/smtp_psa. For this walkthrough the new filename created is smtp_nonstandard. A command like this should work:

Add these lines to the copy you just made:

and change the service name to match the name of the file. A sample smtp_nonstandard looks like this:

# Restart xinetd:

# You should now be able to send mail through your server on port 2525. You may pick a different port if you use this method. We suggest choosing a high port number to avoid using commonly used ports on the internet.