How to delete all email messages in cPanel

I stupidly didn’t set the default email address to :fail: on a couple of accounts on my cPanel server and found, while running a remote backup, that there were a few gigs of spam emails that were just sitting in those accounts.
But after going through about a dozen of the 500+ pages in Horde to [...]

Sometimes spam is just funny

The humor on this was just too good not to post about it. I’ve got a spammer that has sent me the following email about 2 dozen times in the past week.
Good day,
My name is different names on each one and I am looking to buy links from good websites as yours (mydomain).
I [...]

Using Google Alerts to keep track of what’s said about you

I wrote about Google Alerts a few months ago to get new topic ideas for your blog or forum. There is another use for Alerts - to keep track of what’s being said about you, your site, or your company.
By entering your name, site name, or company name you can get email alerts any [...]

Using Google Alerts for new content ideas

For those of y’all having trouble keeping up with the latest developments in whatever field you blog on, there is an option other than RSS feeds. Google has a service called Alerts that will send you emails based upon your search terms.

To start receiving alerts you just enter your search term, what type of [...]

cPanel, email, and the difference in fail and blackhole

If you’re running a server with cPanel and using exim as your mail server you have two semi-unlisted options for handling mail that’s not to a specific address.
cPanel calls this a catch all address and it’s useful if you want to have mails addressed to incorrect addresses on your domain still get to you. [...]