Another quick fix post! Problem A mailbox for a specific user was not receiving mail on a postfix & dovecot on a Plesk server which I managed. The following error messages were being shown in the mail log: $ tail -f /var/log/maillog Apr 25 15:04:34 server01 dovecot: service=imap, [email protected], ip=[192.168.0.1]. Error: /var/qmail/mailnames/exampledomain.com/dan/Maildir/dovecot.index: modseq_hdr.log_offset too large As you can see the the error is: “modseq_hdr.log_offset too large”. I’m not sure what caused this (I think it’s related to the dovecot.…

After spending time over Christmas coding a tool to query Steam servers for information. I’ve now been taking the next steps… Sending data to a Steam server! For this example, I’m going to be using a Rust Dedicated Server, to send a simple command, then in future posts show how I sent scheduled commands (such as adverts, messages and other routine tasks which you would expect a Rust server to run).…

This is a really small blog post, but it’s an issue I wanted to share - so hopefully anyone who comes across this issue themselves can avoid the mistake I made! Basically, we noticed that one of our older Plesk servers seemed to have lost basic functionality like editing DNS zones, or accessing PHPMyAdmin or Webmail. When going to Tools & Settings > Server Components we noticed that next to all the services (components), there was the message “The component was not installed”.…