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Email Works via IMAP But Not POP3 – cPanel

This problem is probably happening because the wrong POP3 server is running. To fix this, follow these instructions:

1) Login to your Linux box via SSH as root.

2) Run the following command:

vi /etc/xinetd.d/popa3d
3) Locate the line ‘disable = no’.

4) Change the line to read ‘disable = yes’.

5) Save and close the file by pressing ‘esc’ and typing ‘:wq’.

6) Now restart the xinetd service: ‘service xinetd restart’.

7) Login to WHM and navigate to: WHM > Restart Services > Select the Link ‘POP3 Server (cppop)’.

icon cool When prompted to restart the service, select ‘Yes’.

You should now be able to access your cPanel email via POP3.

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Enabling Spell Checker in Horde Webmail

One of the many unique features about Horde webmail is it’s spell checker facility. However, the use of this requires that certain components be installed. To install these follow these instructions:

1) Login to your Linux box via SSH as root.

2) Install aspell by running the following command:

    yum -y install aspell aspell-en-gb

Leave it to install; you shouldn’t need to make any changes to Horde as it should automatically detect the ASPELL installation.

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Installing cPanel

Follow these steps to install cPanel on a Linux box (Dedicated Hosting, Cloud Hosting or a VPS).

1) Login to your Linux machine via SSH as root.

2) Run the following commands:

# cd /home

# wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest

# sh latest

After that you will need to leave it for around 90 minutes so that cPanel can install.

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Installing Fantastico

Installing Fantastico on a Linux system is fairly easy; follow these instructions and you will have it installed in no time!

1) Login to your Linux box via SSH as root.

2) Run the following commands:

# cd /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi

# wget -N http://files.betaservant.com/files/free/fantastico_whm_admin.tgz

# tar -xzpf fantastico_whm_admin.tgz

# rm -rf fantastico_whm_admin.tgz

3) Login to WHM and navigate to: ‘WHM’ > ‘Add-Ons’ > ‘Fantastico De Luxe WHM Admin’ and perform the rest of the installation from there.

You have just install Fantastico!

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FLV Videos

You may find that your FLV videos aren’t playing or won’t download. To solve this you will need to add the FLV mime type in IIS. To do this, follow these instructions:

1) Select the site which you want to configure in IIS; right click on it and select ‘Properties’.

2) Under the ‘HTTP Headers’ tab, select “File Types” under the ‘MIME Map’ section and select ‘New Type’.

3) Type ‘.flv’ as the associated extension, and ‘video/x-flv’ as the associated content type.

4) Click ‘OK’, then restart IIS.

That’s it! Your FLV files should now play and download!

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