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How to auto delete old emails for cPanel User

If your mailbox that is always going over-quota or filling up with mail like your default account or your spam box and you don’t want to have to keep logging in and deleting the emails manually below you can find the steps how to auto delete the emails.

Log on to your cPanel Interface.
Go to ”Advanced‘ section.
Click on “Cron Jobs“.
Select the specific time from the lists provided.
You should enter the command to run in the “Command” field.

Note: You should make sure to enter the proper command and the full path to the file.

Check the relevant screen captures:

To do this enter the following information in the following fields:

Minute: 45
Hour: 06
Day: *
Month: *
Weekday: *

Command: /usr/bin/archivemail –quiet –delete –days 10 /home/{USER}/mail/inbox

Make sure you replace {USER} with your actual cPanel username.

Hit the Commit Changes button and wait until sometime after 6:45 AM (assuming you set it up to run at that time) and login to your default email account to see if your emails have been deleted

If everything looks good your default inbox will now have any emails that are older than 10 days automatically deleted

To login into your default email account you use your cpanel username and password

If you wanted to have all the emails deleted that are older than three days you would simply change the –days option to 3

If you wanted to have all emails inside your mail directory including sent mail, spam, etc. that are older than 30 days deleted…
/usr/bin/archivemail –quiet –delete –days 30 /home/{USER}/mail/*

If you had an email account named info @ yourdomain.com and wanted to have all the emails in that inbox that are older than seven days deleted…
/usr/bin/archivemail –quiet –delete –days 7 /home/{USER}/mail/{yourdomain.com}/info/inbox

If you had an email account named info @ yourdomain.com and wanted to have all the emails in your sent-mail folder that are older than twenty-one days deleted…
/usr/bin/archivemail –quiet –delete –days 21 /home/{USER}/mail/{yourdomain.com}/info/sent-mail

Don’t forget to change {yourdomain.com} to your actual domain name !

You can look in your mail directory via your ftp client or the online file manager to see where your mailboxes are located.

NOTE: We *CANNOT* recover mail deleted in this manner, so please use this tutorial at your own risk

POP and IMAP email settings for Outlook

To add your email account to Outlook, Outlook on the web, Outlook.com, or the Mail and Calendar apps for Windows 10, you’ll need several pieces of information including the type of account, the incoming and outgoing server names, and the SSL and port settings.

Your email provider can give you these settings, but we’ve provided the settings for the most popular email providers below.

Below you will find POP and IMAP server settings

You can find your server settings below. If your provider isn’t listed, visit your email provider’s website and contact their technical support.

Gmail

You have to enable IMAP or POP access at http://mail.google.com before you can add your account to any other applications.

IMAP incoming server: imap.gmail.com
IMAP port: 993
IMAP SSL: Yes
SMTP outgoing server: smtp.gmail.com
SMTP port: 587
SMTP SSL or TLS: TLS
POP incoming server: pop.gmail.com
POP port: 995
POP SSL: Yes

If you’d like us to add your email provider, please leave us a comment below with the name of your provider. We can’t add every provider, but we will try to add popular ones on a regular basis.

Outlook.com

IMAP incoming server: imap-mail.outlook.com
IMAP port: 993
IMAP encryption (SSL/TLS): TLS
SMTP outgoing server: smtp-mail.outlook.com
SMTP port: 587
SMTP encryption: STARTTLS
POP incoming server: pop-mail.outlook.com
POP port: 995
POP encryption (SSL/TLS): TLS

If you’d like us to add your email provider, please leave us a comment below with the name of your provider. We can’t add every provider, but we will try to add popular ones on a regular basis.

Yahoo!

IMAP incoming server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
IMAP port: 993
IMAP SSL: Yes
SMTP outgoing server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
SMTP port: 465 or 587
SMTP SSL or TLS: SSL
POP incoming server: pop.mail.yahoo.com
POP port: 995
POP SSL: Yes

If you’d like us to add your email provider, please leave us a comment below with the name of your provider. We can’t add every provider, but we will try to add popular ones on a regular basis.

How to Setup Email in Outlook 2016

Note: To complete these steps, you will need to know your email address and password provided by your Internet service provider (ISP).

Select the type of email account you want to add to Outlook 2016.

You can use these steps to add your first account as well as all additional accounts.

Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Hotmail.com, or Live.com

Most email accounts, including Office 365, Exchange server accounts, Outlook.com, Hotmail.com, and Live.com accounts can be set up in a few quick steps.

Open Outlook 2016.

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Select File > Add Account.

Enter your email address, then select Connect or, if your screen looks different, enter your name, email address, and password, and then select Next.

If prompted, enter your password and select OK.

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That’s it. Select Finish to start using Outlook 2016.

Gmail

Before you add your Gmail account to Outlook, you’ll need to turn on two-factor authentication with Gmail and generate an app password from the Gmail website. After you have that app password, you can add your Gmail account to Outlook.

An app password is a one-time password that you’ll use in place of your regular Gmail email password. It lets Gmail confirm that you’re the person accessing your email.

Step 1: Generate an app password from Gmail

Go to Gmail from your browser, then select the Google apps icon in the upper right corner of the screen.

Select My Account > Sign-in & security > Signing in to Google.

Under Password & sign-in method, if 2-Step Verification is ON, skip to the next step. Otherwise, select 2-Step Verification and follow the prompts. When you’re done, select the back arrow at the top of the screen.

Under Password & sign-in method > App passwords.

Enter your Google password > Sign in. At the bottom of the next screen, select Mail and Windows Computer from the drop-down lists >Generate.

Google will display an app password for you. Make a note of this password (without the spaces).

Step 2: Add your Gmail account to Outlook 2016

Open Outlook 2016.

Select File > Add Account.

Enter your email address, then select Connect or, if your screen looks different, enter your name, Gmail address, and the app password from step 6 above, and then select Next.

If prompted, enter the app password you generated in Step 6 above > OK.

That’s it. Select Finish to start using Outlook.

iCloud, Apple, or @me.com accounts

Before you add your iCloud, Apple, or @me.com account to Outlook, you’ll need to turn on two-factor authentication with iCloud and generate an app password from the iCloud website. After you have that app password, you can add your account to Outlook.

An app password is a one-time password that you’ll use in place of your regular password. It lets iCloud confirm that you’re the person accessing your email.

Step 1: Generate an app password from iCloud

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Go to the Apple ID website from your browser, enter your Apple ID and password.

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If you’ve already turned on two-factor authentication, you’ll receive a code on one of your devices. Enter this code to continue. Otherwise, turn on two-factor authentication.

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In the Security section, under APP-SPECIFIC PASSWORDS, select Generate Password…

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Enter a name, such as Outlook and select Create.

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Copy the app password displayed. Make a note of this password.

Step 2: Add your iCloud account to Outlook 2016

Open Outlook 2016.

Select File > Add Account.

Enter your email address, then select Connect or, if your screen looks different, enter your name, iCloud or Apple or @me.com address, and the app password from step 5 above, and then select Next.

If prompted, enter the app password you generated in Step 5 above once more > OK.

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That’s it. Select Finish to start using Outlook.

YAHOO

Before you add your Yahoo account to Outlook 2016, you’ll need to generate an app password from the Yahoo website. After you have that app password, you can add your Yahoo account to Outlook.

An app password is a one-time password that you’ll use in place of your regular Yahoo email password. It lets Yahoo confirm that you’re the person accessing your email.

Note: Microsoft is investigating an issue that causes some users to be unable to setup their IMAP accounts (Gmail, Yahoo, Apple, and others). If you attempt to add your account to Outlook and are not asked for a password, you are affected by this issue. For a workaround, see Outlook doesn’t ask me for a password.

Step 1: Generate an app password from Yahoo

Go to Yahoo from your browser, then select the settings icon in the upper right corner of the screen.

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Select Account info > Account security. You may need to sign in again.

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If needed, turn on two-step verification. Otherwise, select Manage app passwords.

Select Outlook Desktop from the drop-down list, and then select Generate.

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Yahoo will display an app password for you. Make a note of this password (without the spaces).

Step 2: Add your Yahoo account to Outlook 2016

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Open Outlook 2016.

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Select File > Add Account.

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Enter your email address, then select Connect or, if your screen looks different, enter your name, email address, and the app password from step 5 above > Next .

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If prompted again, enter the app password you generated in step 5 above, then select OK.

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That’s it. Select Finish to start using Outlook.

Other email account (or I don’t know)

If you have an account through your Internet Service Provider, mobile phone company, or a business that doesn’t use an Exchange server, Outlook will try to find your settings for you. However, if Outlook can’t find your settings, you can look them up in our email provider settings reference. Select the type of account you have and note the settings you’ll need for Outlook 2016.

Open Outlook 2016.

Select File > Add Account.

Enter your email address, then select Connect or, if your screen looks different, enter your name, email address, and password, and then select Next.

Enter your password and select OK. You may need to enter the password more than once.

Outlook may display a screen that lists all of your email server settings. Select Connect.

That’s it. Select Finish to start using Outlook.

Manual setup

Sometimes, Outlook’s automatic setup fails. If so, you can add most account types manually. You cannot add an Exchange server account manually. If you want to add an Office 365 email account manually, you’ll have to add it as an IMAP account.

Open Outlook 2016.

Select File > Add Account.

Select Advanced Setup > Let me set up my account manually > Connect.

Select your account type, usually POP or IMAP.

You can find the Incoming and Outgoing mail server, Port, Encryption method, and Secure Password Authentication information in the POP and IMAP account settings topic. Select Connect.

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That’s it. Select Finish to start using Outlook.

If you’re having trouble adding your account to Outlook 2016, double-check the following settings:

Your User name is your full email address.
Your Incoming server port is usually 993.
Your Outgoing server port is usually 465.

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How to Speed Up Magento Site Performance

Magento is one of the most widely used eCommerce platforms today that people to choose to grown their online business. In this post, we will discuss tips on how to speed up Magento performance to ensure you don’t lose any sales due to high abandonment rate or an unsatisfying user experience.

Magento’s intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing tools, a catalog-management engine and is SEO optimized to give merchants the power to create sites that provide an unrivaled and rich online shopping experience for their customers, tailored to their unique business needs.

When it comes to choosing an eCommerce CMS, you could go with WooCommerce which is an extension of WordPress, Shopify, Volusion, and a number of other ones.

Lot of businesses choose Magento is because it is a very robust platform with a high level of functionality and customizability, it is highly scalable, meaning there would be no need to change to a different platform later on as you scale up.

Enable Magento caching

This is of course the first step in optimization: Enable all the available caches in the Magento Admin Panel. When all other settings are in place and the site is ready to go live, navigate to System → Cache Management. Select everything and then under the drop-down select Enable and click Submit.

Latest Version

It is very important that you are always running the latest version of Magento as updates generally contain bug fixes and performance improvements. There are three main steps when it comes to upgrading a Magento installation.

1. Install a fresh version the Magento file tree
2. Run the installer from the file tree on top of the outdated database
3. Move over themes and custom extensions from the old version to the current version.

Magento upgrade is a little more work as compare WooCommerce or Shopify upgrade, but Customer Paradigm has a good in-depth tutorial on how to fully upgrade Magento.

Content Delivery Network

Implementing a CDN with Magento is one of the easiest ways to instantly see decreased load times, By doing this you can ensure you are serving your product images, javascript, CSS from multiple locations around the globe so they are delivered faster to your clients.

Magento and Magento 2 CDN Integration with KeyCDN is very simple. Both can be setup with HTTP and HTTPS configurations.

Setting Up a Flat Catalog

You probably know that Magento uses EAV database structure for categories, products. In some cases this solution is not the best or fastest. Enabling the flat catalog for categories and products merges product data into one table, thereby improving performance by responding to MySQL queries faster.

On the Admin menu, select System → Configuration. Then in the panel on the left under Catalog, select Catalog

Under Frontend change Use Flat Catalog Category and Use Flat Catalog Product to Yes.

When complete, click the Save Config button.

Clear the cache. The recommended way to do this is to delete everything from the /var/cache directory. You can also do it by navigating to System → Cache Management and clicking on Flush Cache Storage which is equivalent to deleting all the cache.

Optimize Images

Very few stores are optimizing images which is quite important considering that images change on every page load. Optimizing your product images can dramatically increase the speed of your pages as this decreases their download times.

You can compress them before uploading them using a tool like PhotoShop or there are a number of extensions you can use to auto-optimize them.

GTMetrix also has a Magento extension called GTspeed. It includes image optimization as well as CSS/JS concatenation and minification. Take a look at the difference on a stock Magento install. After installing the plugin, take a look at the difference on a stock Magento install:

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