Category: server

Email Forwarding Is Bad: Why you should never forward email.

Forwarding mail is defined as re-sending mail from one mailbox to another.  For the sake of this discussion, we’re going to assume that you have an email account on a private domain name hosted at any web hosting company online, or even on your own VPS or dedicated server. We’ll use this tidbitsfortechs.com’s name as …

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Virtualmin Configuration: Adding Image Magick to PHP 5.6.5

Tonight I needed to do some work on my Other Blog and noticed that I was unable to edit images directly in WordPress. Yep, I hadn’t installed Image Magick yet and so those functions were not available. If you followed the installation/configuration instructions at my Previous Post, then the following likely applies to you. And …

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Setting up Virtualmin on CentOS 7 with Spam Filtering and a Firewall

Setup a Virtualmin Server on CentOS 7 Well hello there! In this tutorial, we’re going to take a bare CentOS 7 server and install Virtualmin. Along the way we’ll get it ready for some basic spam filtering with postfix and make it ready for general use. This build was originally deployed on a VPS over …

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