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Plesk External SMTP with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Posted on 31st March 20201st April 2020 by ianb

It is pretty straight forward, but you may hit some odd errors such as: “554 Message rejected: Email address is not verified”, “Cannot connect to smtp.servername.com, port 25: Connection timed out” or “The server sent an empty reply”.

How to: Add extra disk space to Plesk on Amazon AWS

Posted on 24th December 201925th December 2019 by ianb

It was surprisingly easy to add extra hard drive space to Plesk Obsidian even though it’s a virtual machine on Amazon’s AWS infrastructure. The underlying Linux disk drive space automatically extended once restarted.

Plesk SendMail Reject “You are not allowed to use sendmail utility.”

Posted on 27th November 201931st March 2020 by ianb

If you have installed/uninstalled the mail services in a hope that you can get the SendMail utility working for WordPress/PHP or you don’t see any mail in the queue and you can’t see anything wrong… check this!