Create mail account and alias by command line with parallel plesk panel

Following command is used to create mail account by Linux command line for parallel plesk panel

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail --create name@domain.com -mailbox true -passwd Pa55w0rd -antivirus in


Following command is used to create mail account by Linux command line for parallel plesk panel

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail -u name@domain.com -aliases add:alias1,alias2,alias3,alias4,alias5,alias6


Note : Change bold place as your requirement


You can use this line multiple time for create more mail accounts / alias accounts, Need to work some more for get input from text file and create mails and alias. I'll try to update soon with script.

Disabling local mail for a domain on parallel plesk panel

When we migrate mail servers with parallel plesk panel, We can use plesk migration manager.

But some case, we migrate server manualy,

Last time I faced following issue,

Server 1 : Current server
Server 2 : New Server

We had around 50 domain / subscription in our server. We planned to switch Server 1 to Server 2 one by one.

By commands & scripts, we've created all domains and mail accounts to Server 2. But we didn't change all domain MX to server 2. That means first 20 domains run in Server 2 and another 30 domains in Server 1.

In this case we got issue for deliver emails from Server 1 to Server 2 and vise-versa.

In this case problem with resolving domain

Any mail server first try to check whether domain in local server or not. If it in local server, it'll deliver mail to mail box directly. In our case both server have all 50 domains and their mail box. So it trying to deliver mails with in server. So it not reach to real location of mail box.

Solution !!! It's not a good idea to remove domains and mail account which is not usable. I've tried with disabling mail box in plesk panel. No use of it. Because it'll just stop sending mail to mail box. But local domain resolvation  won't be stop.

So I've to stop mail service for that domain, following command helped to do that.

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail --off domain.com

If you want to enable domain again, use following command

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail --on domain.com

Force Qmail to process all mails in the queue

Some times qmail not deliver mails, due to connection issue, in that case we can force qmail to send mails forcefully with following command.

This will send alarm signal to mail send.


 kill -ALRM `ps ax | grep [q]mail-send | awk '{print $1}'`


Source : Plesk support

Changing mail queue life time in qmail installed with plesk

Default queue life time is 7 days. That means, your mails will be stored in queue for 7 days if it not able to deliver. 

We can reduce this queue time with following steps.

To check current queue life time:

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-showctl | grep life

Time mentioned as seconds,

To set queue life time:

echo "172800" > /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime

Here I've set queuelifetime is 2 days.

For changes to take effect

service qmail restart

or

/etc/init.d/qmail restart