Archive for March, 2007

Enable Date and Time in history

Linux “history” command shows previous commands used in your server. This is good as you can see what commands are run on your server.

By default history do not show date and time of command execution. You can enable this by editing the file /etc/profile and adding following line as the last line.

HISTTIMEFORMAT=”%h.%d %H:%M”

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Deleting OLD mails from MailEnable Postoffice

On my Windows servers, we use HELM control panel with MailEnable. HELM do not limit mail box size in HELM. So users can use as much as they need, some users have over 1 GB junk mails in mail boxes. Find and delete them is lot of work.

Today i found a utility in that can delete old mails from MailEnable Postoffices.


MailEnable Message Purge Utility

This utility allows you to purge old mail messages from the message store. It can be scheduled as a batch job to clean Deleted Items folders, Inboxes, etc for each postoffice.

There are many more tools available at

http://mailenable.com

To delete all mails that are 400 days old

Following command will delete all 400 days OLD mails

mepurge ALL 400 INBOX+DELETED+SEND

To delete all mails that are 100 days old from postoffice bizhat.com

mepurge bizhat.com 100 INBOX+DELETED+SEND

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YouTube Goes Political

Top White House candidates started their video channels on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/youchoose

Allow candidates to control how they exchange views with voters.

Democrats including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards and Bill Richardson have signed up to have their own channels.

Let us now wait for a time where elections are conducted online.

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