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**swexpert** · #1 (**permalink**) 14-01-2007, 11:35

Hi,
IS there no way to set quota of individual POP accounts in windows reseller account?

Regds
IJ

**eUKhost.com** · #2 (**permalink**) 14-01-2007, 11:47

Do you have account on old plesk servers or new hosting controller windows servers ?

Let me know so that we can provide you with necessary information.

**swexpert** · #3 (**permalink**) 14-01-2007, 11:49

New Windows, Hosting controller

Thx,
IJ

**swexpert** · #4 (**permalink**) 17-01-2007, 18:52

So, there isn't I guess?

Regds
IJ

**eUKhost.com** · #5 (**permalink**) 17-01-2007, 19:10

We can setup quotas for mailboxes from our mailenable administrator panel. There's no option for quotas in hosting controller in the existing version.

If you need quota setup for some accounts then open a ticket for our windows system administrators and they will make necessary changes for you.

**swexpert** · #6 (**permalink**) 19-01-2007, 10:55

Thanks but this is not practically feasible. contacting support time and again for such a thing is not possible.

There is a client who has 50 people(50 POPs) in his office and he wants to limit some to a 1MB or so while alloting higher amounts to those in advertising section and the management, because they receive pictures and other attachment stuff. If they're not able to restrict the not-so-important employees, they may misuse the facility (50 MB attachment size!) and might clogup the shared diskspace.

Regds
IJ

**eUKhost.com** · #7 (**permalink**) 19-01-2007, 11:01

We can setup mailing service for that domain on a cpanel server and make necessary changes in its DNS to make this work. Only problem for the customer would be management of 2 different control panels as they will need to configure mailing service from cpanel control panel and hosting from hosting controller.

I prefer Linux Cpanel servers for mailing service as linux is many times better when it comes to mail service.

**swexpert** · #8 (**permalink**) 19-01-2007, 11:09

I agree 100% cpanel on Linux is much better. At least mail viruses can't wreak havoc. I'll see how we can proceed further. We will need a front-end for squirrel/roundcube etc for email management is what i guess. But it becomes very cumbersome for end users and ultimately you lose customers.

Regds
IJ

**eUKhost.com** · #9 (**permalink**) 19-01-2007, 11:22

They can access webmail with http:// mail.customersdomain.com/webmail URL. If they have 50 people in staff then they should be able to afford additional cost for this special setup. There's no control panel on windows which gives stable service like exim does on cpanel servers. We use mailenable and it is quite good as per our years of experience but hosting controller has limitations and we are sticking with hosting controller as it is best on windows.

Other control panels try to force their stuff against windows and they loose over there.

**swexpert** · #10 (**permalink**) 08-02-2007, 12:55

Hello,
Sorry I had to urgently go out for 3 weeks so lost touch somewhat!

How much would this special setup cost (Send PM, please)?

There is another problem with this customer that they're getting some application developed from a third party. They want to give them access to the control panel. But they also don't want the authorised third party personnel to fiddle/use email IDs included in the package. I think we can do it via the hostingcontroller - restrict users from certain areas, can't we?

Regds
IJ

**eUKhost.com** · #11 (**permalink**) 08-02-2007, 13:51

Nothing additional besides a shared hosting package on cpanel servers. You can order a separate cpanel shared package as per space and bandwidth requirements and we will take care of making necessary configuration changes.

Hosting controller allows you to change the MX record of a domain but I am not sure if you can do it properly. If you find it difficult then we are here to do it. Your knowledge of linux and windows is good so give it a try or else we are here to do it.

**swexpert** · #12 (**permalink**) 08-02-2007, 14:13

Hello and Thank you for the complement

You're indeed a good marketing guy! Could sell a ship in a desert.

And lo! I thought you were offering me a MailEnable solution!

I already have a separate linux server so what you suggested is one of the first possible options. Your opinion has seconded my thoughts so maybe I'll go for this. Point their mail server to a Linux Box.

BUT, they have control to their domain. In Cpanel, if an account is created they might be able to use it for hosting as well, because we cannot restrict an account to only mail in Linux. The username/password for FTP will the same as that of cpanel. I HAVE to give them access to CPANEL in order to allow them to manage Email IDs.

Hence all this confusion!

Regds
IJ

**scottca** · #13 (**permalink**) 08-02-2007, 15:06

Sorry if I am way off and missing the point, cant you just log into http:// domainname.com/MEAdmin with your admin username and password that you set when creating an Email domain

From here you can look at the properties of mailboxes and set others up as "admins" you can also set quotas ?

Cheers,

Craig

**eUKhost.com** · #14 (**permalink**) 08-02-2007, 18:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottca

Sorry if I am way off and missing the point, cant you just log into http:// domainname.com/MEAdmin with your admin username and password that you set when creating an Email domain

From here you can look at the properties of mailboxes and set others up as "admins" you can also set quotas ?

Cheers,

Craig

He is having problems in setting quotas for all the mailboxes. Existing verision of hostingcontroller was missing this feature but the new version 7.0 has got this feature. We are upgrading hosting controller at the end of this week so this problem can be sorted.

**eUKhost.com** · #15 (**permalink**) 08-02-2007, 18:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by swexpert

Hello and Thank you for the complement

You're indeed a good marketing guy! Could sell a ship in a desert.

And lo! I thought you were offering me a MailEnable solution!

I already have a separate linux server so what you suggested is one of the first possible options. Your opinion has seconded my thoughts so maybe I'll go for this. Point their mail server to a Linux Box.

BUT, they have control to their domain. In Cpanel, if an account is created they might be able to use it for hosting as well, because we cannot restrict an account to only mail in Linux. The username/password for FTP will the same as that of cpanel. I HAVE to give them access to CPANEL in order to allow them to manage Email IDs.

Hence all this confusion!

Regds
IJ

Thanks for your words

It helps in boosting performance which eventually will bring more growth to our company.

We can make a separate feature list from WHM which will have only mail option enabled. We will remove all other options from that feature list so your customer wont be able to add any additional domains or use any other feature besides email settings.

We have done good amount of Research and Development on Linux mail servers and some of our staff members have got experience with configuration of mail servers for big organizations and thats the reason we have more confidence in mail service on Linux. We have custom spam protection scripts embedded with exim mail server which makes our mail service very stable and reliable.

I've seen come companies spending 4 digit amount for Exchange server and their mail service goes down frequently. We have a cheaper solution but we have close to 100% uptime for mail service with close to 95% spam filtering.

I recommended our cpanel exim mail service as you said that your client has got more than 50 staff members and if you want to give them a reliable solution to get more business from them in future then you should give them mail service on a cpanel server. Your cost will be less but future business coming from them will be good