This post is intended for our Linux hosted sites.

Today I would like to show you some other features on your mail server.

One of these features is Webmail … which may be especially important to you at this time of the year when you may find yourself away from home and your own PC/email.

Note .. If you are not using your email addresses in your own domain name then you really should be. It creates much more of a brand awareness in your clients mind if your website and email addresses correspond.

Mail boxes, aliases and email forwarders are all configured from within the “email” icon in your server control panel.

There are some other functions that can be performed on each individual mail box. To access these functions you need to navigate to the webmail interface for that mailbox.

All email boxes can also be accessed via the web … perfect for when you are not at home.

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This post is relevant for our Linux hosted sites.

Todays post is another in a series designed to teach you more about your server, and the various things it can do.

I will soon be writing posts on various methods that you can use to attract traffic to your website. But, before I do that, I want to show you where/how you can measure the fruits of your labours.

It is very important that you keep an eye on your statistics. The information that can be mined from them is absolute marketing “gold”.

The pretty graphs showing the steady stream of traffic that is coming to my sites is always fun to watch. Usually because the traffic volume is proportional to my earnings.

Simple rule -> MORE TRAFFIC = MORE MONEY

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This post is relevant for everyone.

Yesterdays post was all about reducing the amount of spam that you receive into your mailbox. Spam is such a pervasive problem nowadays that I decided to make todays post on the same topic.

The system we covered yesterday (Spam Assassin) is a rules based system … one that looks at each incoming email and then evaluates it against a set of rules common to spam messages.

While this is a very good way to detect spam, it does suffer from 2 disadvantages …

1. It can let some spam through.
2. It can sometimes mark valid email as spam (called “false positives”).

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This post is intended for our Linux hosted clients.

We hate spam as much as everybody else, so we give you the best tools to kill it :-)

Spam Assassin is an award winning, “rules based” spam detector that is already installed on your server. This software has been around for a long time now and has matured into a very stable and reliable product that works very well indeed.

Basically, it works by using a huge table of rules. A team of people sat down and came up with a long list of all the common characteristics of a spam email, and then assigned a particular score to each characteristic. Spam Assassin checks each incoming email and totals up the scores for all rules that the email violates … and, if the total score is above a certain threshold (default value is 5, but you can change it) then that particular email is flagged as possible spam.

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If your web site is on one of our Linux servers (and most of you are) then you will need to be proficient in using cPanel.

cPanel is the web based control panel that we provide to you that allows you to administer/control almost every aspect of your own server. This includes the ability to create/edit/delete your own email boxes, create ftp users, secure certain files and folders with passwords, install shopping cart scripts, etc etc.

Your control panel will be on http://www.yourdomainnamehere.com/cpanel and needs a login and password for you to access. This username and password will have been emailed to you when I originally set your server up for you. If you cannot remember your login and password then please give me a shout and I will send it to you.

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