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When logging into squirrelmail on a cpanel server, I received the following error:
ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server
To fix this:
chown -R USERNAME:mail /home/USERNAME/mail/
chown -R USERNAME:mail /homeUSERNAME//etc/
Where USERNAME is his cPanel username

Enter the command:
strings `which php` | grep ./configure | sed s#”‘”#””#g

Redirecting network traffic to a new IP using iptables

Posted by: SiiN on: March 17, 2008

Login to the old server as root and enter the following
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -dport 80 -j DNAT –to-destination 1.2.3.4:80
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE
Here the new ip address is 1.2.3.4. Now all the traffic to port 80 will get redirected to port 80 [...]