Feature-requests for Plesk 7.1's successor

[Cranky]

I thought I would create a new feature-request thread for the next release of Plesk since Plesk 7.1 has entered public beta. No point mixing things up in the thread that have made it to Plesk ... better to keep future and existing features separate.

Features previously requested for, and implemented in Plesk 7.1:

- Automated update system
- Antivirus integration
- Backup utilities in line with Plesk release schedule
- Safari support
- Domain-user DNS permissions
- Protected stats (webstat, webstat-ssl, ftpstats, etc.)
- International domain names (IDN) support
- Move forward in minor releases (7.0->7.1)
- Better upgrade tools
- Migration from other CP tools
- MySQL 4 support
- Automated domain backup system
- Automated reporting (monthly email saying who exceeded usage)
- Easier skinnability
- Pre-DNS domain previewing

Plus a LOT more! Thanks for listening!

Features requested and harvested from old threads, but not yet implemented:

- AWStats as an option alongside webalizer
- DSpam integration
- Reseller creating sub-resellers user hierarchy
- Stats for subdomains
- Branded webmail
- Language packs inclusive in cost
- Multiple FTP logins
- Hard-disk quota in "limits" section
- Separate DNS templates for each Client
- Circular/notifications system to communicate with clients, domain users and email users - with reseller support
- Per-client trouble ticket controls (e.g. admin can switch it off for his clients, but his clients can use it for his domain users)
- Zope support
- More application vault scripts
- Domain aliases
- Remote access MySQL option per-db
- Moving clients to a predefined template rather than manually adjusting limits to change package
- Suspended domain holding page when domain switched "off"
- Vhost.conf updates via CP
- Urchin integration (like Urchin integration currently is)
- SPF DNS entries (http://spf.pobox.com)
- Rollover data transfer (10GB transfer over any time period before being charged for more, no more 10gb/month, etc.)
- Automated server backup system
- Improved spamassassin support (e.g. score <1 = normal, 1-3 = tagged, 3+ = deleted) and also option to forward spam to a second mailbox
- Subdomain/webuser password-protected directories
- Subdomain/webuser frontpage support
- GnuPG support
- phpsuexec support (Running PHP scripts as the user, like CGI)
- Client overselling support (useful occasionally, but not that often)
- Hard data transfer limits (overuse transfer and your site switches to holding page)
- Outlook automatic email account installer generator
- Additional webmail options (choose between IMP/Horde, squirrelmail, etc.)
- Database user sharing ... 1 user for more than 1 database

If I missed anything or you think of anything else, post it below. :)

[vispa-uk]

Feature request

multiple users with same name in control panel - At the moment you can't add a client with the same name (eg: John Smith). Usernames I can understand, but there is in my view no need for client names to be limited/error checked.

[Cranky]

- Shoutcast streaming integration (live streaming)
- Darwin streaming integration (streaming from playlist)

[JoaoCorreia]

- mod_bandwidth integration for limiting bandwidth to some domains/clients


Regards
Joao Correia

[koalauk]

I think some kind of domain registration tool would be great. I know there is obviously myPlesk but to be honest I think that is pretty poor when you look at the quality of products such as whoiscart.

Also, how about a better integration to spamassasin. More functonality would be nice and to enable key phrase searches as opposed to just "Training" the engine.

[matt.simpson]

- Master Control Panel On/Off switch to control whether clients can log in or not (like forum software has) which would be useful prior to and after upgrades.

- Jabber support might be a pretty cool option to be able to offer your clients. Their own IM server, with transports to AIM, ICQ, MSN, etc etc. (http://www.jabber.org)



Very good suggestions up there Cranky.

~Matt Simpson

[jlohrenz]

Ability to have the central webmail covered by a domain's own SSL certificate instead of the default PLESK certificate.
-Involves having additional entries coded into each domain's httpd.include file pointing to the central install.


Ability to add protected directories to subdomains.

[DanLuria]

- Option to hide Greyed-out buttons.
- /webstat and /ftpstat only viewable within Plesk.
- Option to add the DB username as a required prefix.

Everything else seems to be covered!

[jstuart]

Do NOT require each domain to have their own FTP login. IE allow us to setup a client FTP/SFTP login and then store ALL of the domains under it.

[kdejong01]

- Add muliple domains to the same hosting setup. Domainaliassing

- Multiple users with administrative rights

- Authorisation for ticketsystem, so you can add people for your helpdesk.

#1: AWstats integration, a.s.a.p. because WebAlizer is not reliable. It's displaying for some customer 6x the real bandwith :( If i move the logfile to another server with AWstats, than is it displaying the real amount of bandwith usage,

It's good to see that 7.1 will be fix and add features! Thank you! Keep up the good work!

[Cranky]

- FrontPage and FTP logins optionally use same login details (click a checkbox to copy the details from FTP to the frontpage fields, or just automatically do it greying out the frontpage fields when the checkboxes clicked). (Plesk 7 for Windows uses same login for both)
- Option to have httpdocs and httpsdocs merged per-domain, e.g. checkbox makes http and https both serve files from the same directory

[PaulC]

Cranky - The Frontpage login is the same under Windows because the system accounts are used by Frontpage. However, not being on Windows, all the other versions use a seperate file for authentication.

It would be possible, but I would keep it simple and force the same FTP/Frontpage username/password as the windows version does.

[Cranky]

It would be possible, but I would keep it simple and force the same FTP/Frontpage username/password as the windows version does.

I was thinking more about backwards compatability really ... if we are allowed to control the transition like we could with the email accounts (compound and simple) that would be fine. But yeah, they should be the same.

[PaulC]

Personally, I dont think there needs to be a transition with the frontpage user/pass. The form would start to get complex, and 99% of our clients always use the same user/pass for both anyway!

[Cranky]

I could live with either, and you're probably right. If they default to the FTP user/pass that would be fine.

[AcornWebs]

have rollover transfer, where you have a monthly transfer and allow to set max rollover. Like they have 60GB/mo, and they only use 20GB, and the max rollover is 15GB, so they'll have 60GB next month plus the 15GB rolled over for 75GB next month.

[PixyPumpkin]

@Cranky do you know what has been implemented in the "new" PLESK 7.1 Application Pack?

Thx!

[Traged1]

Since there is now a trouble ticketing system addon, I think it would be nice to also have a "Live Support" addon option in the CP. Like an IRC chat window in the CP where sessioned clients could interact with logged in admin or support staff.

Streaming media support has been requested by our clients many time, and mention much in the forums.

[Whistler]

Another nice thing to have:

I would be nice if the Plesk interface supports the abillity to choose with ACL rights a created database user should have... (at leat in MySQL as its very simple to implement a point and click interface that supports it).

Its not uncommon to have a general database user thats used to access the database on a restricted (select only) basis and only permit an 'administrator' user to do deletes.

Plus the ability to register ACL for other allowed hosts than localhost...

//Geert

[Cranky]

Originally posted by PixyPumpkin
@Cranky do you know what has been implemented in the "new" PLESK 7.1 Application Pack?

Thx!

There's just 2 differences really:

1) The addition of Plesk Professional Website Editor (an add-on I believe)
2) You can now restrict access to apps per-domain

[PixyPumpkin]

@Cranky, thx for you quick reply, but will there be any additional applications like Typo3?, as in the Total Install from 4PSA?

Thx!

[Cranky]

I was told it's unlikely.

[PixyPumpkin]

Pitty, but not for 4PSA :) Thx! This time let hope you are wrong ;)

[Herby]

- easy setup for backup mx
- impove spamassassin for users: trusted_networks, ok_languages, ok_locales and allow decimals in required hits.

[PixyPumpkin]

I would't like to see Typo3 support and more admin levels, user levels for reseller purposes.

[drm@work]

Since PHP5 final has been released [1], i'd like to see support for it in the next PSA update :) I think i might not be the only one.

Considerations are to enable the zend.z1_compatibility_mode directive, and let the per host configuration figure out if the zend2 engine has to be enabled (maybe during Physical Hosting setup?)

Another might be a new handle for PHP files using the zend2 engine and let the zend1 and zend2 engine run seperately, handling resp. .php and .php5 files.

[1] see: http://www.php.net/

I am eager to see what the dev-team is going to do with it :)

[PaulC]

Not sure if this has been suggested before, but I'd love to see the option under client templates for the template/skin the client has.

Have just installed 7.1 so might be posting some more ideas :D

[proserve]

Originally posted by kdejong01
- Add muliple domains to the same hosting setup. Domainaliassing

- Multiple users with administrative rights

- Authorisation for ticketsystem, so you can add people for your helpdesk.

#1: AWstats integration, a.s.a.p. because WebAlizer is not reliable. It's displaying for some customer 6x the real bandwith :( If i move the logfile to another server with AWstats, than is it displaying the real amount of bandwith usage,

It's good to see that 7.1 will be fix and add features! Thank you! Keep up the good work!

i cant believe nobody else wants domain aliasing , i know alot of people who hack this stuff manually, thats not the way such a great cp should work.

add domain aliasing to the wanted list asap ! :D

[frozen]

I haven't really looked into this, but how about creation utilities for the ticket system, so tickets can be created from a website too.

[rev606]

Full SPF (Sender Policy Framework) support.

[mghanawi]

I would like to see the following:

1. Standard LDAP integration?
a) Optional LDAP enable.
b) Use an external LDAP server

2. High avalibility & load balancing capabilities

a) allow multiple plesk servers to be configured with the same domain with one click. of course this will require a shared storage.
b) add the same client to multiple servers.
c) add the same domain to multiple servers.
d) support for hardware load balancing.
e) software load balancing.
f) one database for all servers.

Basically speaking, I need a full replica of my single plesk server in case it goes down.

3. Web services functionality.

4.

[net4nuts]

A few enhancements to email would be very helpful...

1) Redirect : Ability to choose between Redirect, Redirect Copy, Forward First ## characters (can be used for generating [SMS]alerts on mobiles).

2) Advanced Filters / Forwarding rules : To create rules for handling & forwarding emails. Current rules apply only for webmail interface - would be nice to have comprehensive rules at the mailbox level. (Example: If TO/CC Contain/Do Not Contain <Value Here> then Forward/Forward Copy/Move/Delete message to email/folder ). Am surprised nobody is missing this functionality so far.

3) Additional webmail options - incase someone is not happy with IMP-Horde.

4) Additional webmail clients for access via WAP (like mail2wap.com) or PDAs (like mail2pda.com).

[mcahill]

I'd really like to see WebDAV support via the Control Panel just like that of protected directories.

[matt.simpson]

Originally posted by mcahill
I'd really like to see WebDAV support via the Control Panel just like that of protected directories.
Yeah, WebDAV would be cool. I could set up iCal to publish to my Plesk server among other things. This would be super simple to implement as well.

~Matt

[RexAdmin]

Webalizer should have more "clever" settings, for first, we need to remove referer from itself.

I need true referers in listing not site itself.

[PixyPumpkin]

Something like Modernbill build in PLESK together with a payment system like PayPal would be very nice! ;)

[frozen]

I've said this before. A built in billing system would be a bad idea. Most of us bigger hosts provide more then just Plesk. Such as other control panels, game servers, dedicated servers, etc. If we were to integrate billing into Plesk it would mean we would have to do billing in a seperate system for our other sales. Not to mention the way SW-Soft is, we would be restricted to payment proccessors they partner with, domain registration they partnet with, etc Personally Modernbill is the best route to go at this time, and can be found for as low as $12/m with some Modernbill resellers.

[PixyPumpkin]

How many times ;), I did not think about it this way, but probably you are right, thx for the lesson :) I already own a licence for Modernbill, but the Dutch translation is very bad so I cannot use it (yet).

[frozen]

Not sure to be honest, I just know we had a similar thread like this at WHT(wasn't aimed at Plesk, but general idea).

Hopefully Modernbill can straighten out the Dutch pack. I see a lot of different software have very poor Dutch translations(maybe the same person that did it for MB did it for Plesk too, lol).

I am actually experiencing the same problem with integration on Plesk 7 now. The Plesk Help Desk is now confusing my customers because we have it disabled so all users(Plesk users, other control panel users, dedicated customers, etc) will use the helpdesk on our site. The customers see this helpdesk link in the control panel and end up emailing us instead of looking on the site for the proper one.

[Traged1]

Why not make the PLESK billing an addon then, you can chose to use it or not? See addon's aren't all bad.

1. Make the addon like the "extras" if they are not available, do not show icon at all.

2. SpamAssassin settings need an option to forward spam to a seperate email box and not just the one that it is currently filtering, this was you can forward it to your spamcop.net account ect..

3. When training your Bayes filter they need to add a "Select all as spam" for people who have a dedicated spam dropbox instead of having to click on thousands of emails to designate they are spam.

4. The ability to choose between different virus scanner backends IE, f-prot , sophos, panda ect.. And have the email virus scanning icon appear if you have any of them enabled not just for dr.web.

[DanLuria]

Small request.. have the default skins managed in the Skins button, as opposed to the Preferences button. Along with that, make the dropdown boxes list the skins alphabetically.

[eilko]

give the possibility to use third party products instead of PSA add-ons. Eg. 4PSA cleanserver instead of DrWeb. Instead of a greyed out antivirus at the mailbox there should be a link to Cleansever. Now users can do almost the same at two points in the CP,. Same for Applicationvault vs Integrator and Spamassassin vs Spamguardian or subdomains vs Totaldomains.

The integration of 4PSA for Reloaded 7.11 is better but still I have greyed out options in the mailbox pages where I would have like to see the 4PSA tools.

[quabbo]

It'd be great to have greyed out icons simply disappear. Why do people need to see what they can't get at - even more so if it's because I didn't buy it in the license.

[AcornWebs]

Exacly, It'd be fine to gray out features they can't use, but not show features that you dont' even have. Like an option to hide features your license doesn't support, or better yet list the features and then choose to hide or gray.

[hardweb]

I also sustain the idea that the disabled functions must disapper. Over 80% of hosting users are confused by so many functions; the gray icons increase the confusion even more and generate support calls.

[MrBafner]

Actually having the "Black List" working... so when we enter domain names, they are actually blocked.


1) We spent a full day entering 290 domain names into the black list and every single one of them are still downloading in the normal emails.

Any manual or automatic spam detection would be good..... just as long as they work. downloading 1200 spam over 3 domain names is a joke!!!!


2) better documentation on the things that are already in plesk. The help files are pretty useless on a lot of topics. Read up on Black List... it just says to enter the mail domain to block... but plesk doesn't accept the "@" sign at all (its an illegal character on the black list page).

3) Change the webstats back to the old path

4) More options for clients - this would encourage the clients to actually use their control panel instead of asking for assistance all the time. (these would be pretty simple to impliment)

* Maybe a built in Search Engine submission program that we can use to submit to the major search engines. There is a lot of them out there, and we can just update them through the plesk control panel.

* Lilnk checker that wont show up in the stats - server side

5) Some more options to make things easier on us... Maybe so we can integrate our websites in with the plesk server. Just some good instructions on how we can setup hosting by a click of a button (by the user).

I know this can be done, the 3rd party packages that are available on the SWSoft website do this. We just need a few descent instructions so we can figure it out ourselves. The instructions you guys supply are pretty weak.

Well thats it for now from me !!!!

[DanLuria]

A new one I just noticed.. the little checkbox next to 'Mailbox' when creating a new mail alias isn't obvious enough for new users.. the setup should be much more 'Step' driven. (Ie: Step1: Choose a name, Step2: Choose what you want this address to do, etc)

Also, don't remember if I've said it, but prefix domains with username_, then create something a-la symlinks from new to old db's so that no scripts break.

Another small problem.. if you setup a domain, it shows all templates, even if they're for a client or have been deleted.. don't know if it's just me or a bug, but should be looked at.

[Cranky]

- Ability to move clients and domains between "client templates" and "domain templates" would be useful. i.e. if we have a Host 1 package and a Host 2 package and a Host 1 customer wants to upgrade, rather than manually changing his account it would be easier to simply click the template manager and select Host 2 for his limits to auto-update. This would also be useful for hosts who make changes to their packages as if this is also available via global operations it will make it easy to, for example, double diskspace on all accounts.

[b-nut]

Hardweb, AcornWebs, quabbo,

This might be a better how-to, but i'm posting in this thread so everyone who has requested this feature will be notified.

Disabling the greyed out buttons is entirely possible. You just have to understand a little css and then edit your plesk skin files. It's actually quite simple. For example, If you want to hide all of the greyed-out buttons in the "plesk silver" skin here is the process:
cd /usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/skins/plesk.silver/css/main
chmod 644 buttons.css
vi buttons.css

Then look for all of the id selectors that have the -disabled suffix. Whithin those selectors, remove the following line:

background-image: url(../../images/image_id -disabled_bg.gif);

then add this line:

display:none; width:0px; height:0px;

Do this for all of the -disabled selectors and save your changes. Log-in to the control panel. You should no longer see any greyed-out buttons! I have tested it with IE6 and Mozilla on WinXP.

Plesk has documented the skinning procedure very well. The doc is here:
http://download1.sw-soft.com/Plesk/Plesk7.1/Doc/html/plesk-7-reloaded-custom-skins-guide/index.html

Hope this help you all out with the annoying grey buttons!

[mghanawi]

PAM (Password Authentication Module) integration, to make authentication more flexible. So that one can use:

LDAP, NIS, NIS+, winbind, kerbrose, etc ...

Managing a large number of users/domains on a plesk system is a nightmare. It would be really nice if it was possible to move a user/domain from one plesk system to another with a click.

It would be nice, to see a catagorized list of features compiled by the Plesk team, maybe it is then easier to see if more are required.

Also it would be nice to know if the plesk team will actually implement all the features in that list, or just a subset.

[JoaoCorreia]

Review all the applications. Remove all bugs from current applications, instead of building new ones.

Regards
Joao Correia

[RexAdmin]

Reading the forums and taking part of discussions.

Good luck.

[proserve]

Originally posted by JoaoCorreia
Review all the applications. Remove all bugs from current applications, instead of building new ones.

Regards
Joao Correia

agreed!! and add webserver / mailserver aliases.

[Boodlums]

I wrote my own spam filter in Perl, and want to have a "global" installation in addition to "local" per-account installations.

My filter program will provide the kinds of features net4nuts asks for above, as well as "greylists" and English-like (xTalk style) rules syntax.

Please, SWsoft -- don't restrict your product to a single mail filter program. Monopoly is bad. Freedom of choice is good.

thank you,
-Walter
wondering if a workaround might be to emulate CSS's @import thing...

[egate]

A feature that allows users to import there address book to the white list in spam filter configuration would be nice.

[hansm]

A SOLUTION TO REMOVE THE OWN REFFERER IN WEBALIZER STATS, WHY CAPS LETTERS BECAUSE ITS TOO MUCH WORK FOR SW-SOFT TO ADD A "-R domain" TO THE CONFIG STRING IN /USR/LOCAL/PSA/ADMIN/SBIN/STATISTICS

please get awake and change it, statistics sucks because of this on each plesk version till 6, i didt buy 7 do you know why, because of this.

its time to wake up there people.

[brandonarbini]

I could really use mcrypt. It seems to be the best method for two-way encryption available for use within PHP. It requires a recompile of PHP to use and I'm not comfortable doing that, so it'd be great if it could be built in. Thanks.

[Cranky]

Originally posted by brandonarbini
I could really use mcrypt. It seems to be the best method for two-way encryption available for use within PHP. It requires a recompile of PHP to use and I'm not comfortable doing that, so it'd be great if it could be built in. Thanks.

That will work using ART's rpms .... www.atomicrocketturtle.com

[Jason Lee]

ASP .Net Support would be nice to have.

[matt.simpson]

Originally posted by Jason Lee
ASP .Net Support would be nice to have.
Maybe in the Windows version, not in the real version :D

~Matt

[SBCTEC]

There's alot of documentation resolving the issue when sending email through smtp is slow, and works great after adding a switch to the smtp script for xinetd, but when changing the blacklist options, everything you manually had to change goes away. It would be great if that could get fixed so I don't have to keep reentering this stupid manual patch.

[Jason Lee]

Originally posted by matt.simpson
Maybe in the Windows version, not in the real version :D

~Matt

It would be very usefull for the *nix version as there are many businesses that use asp.net and being able to offer asp.net to my clients would benifit both them and me.

Also it would be nice if swsoft could include mysql or at least the option of including mysql cmd into chrooted accounts.

[eilko]

possibilty to switch off the user rights to change the skin.

[matt.simpson]

Originally posted by Jason Lee
It would be very usefull for the *nix version as there are many businesses that use asp.net and being able to offer asp.net to my clients would benifit both them and me.


Okay, it would be useful for some companies; however, if all of their site was done in .NET, they would likely want to host their website on a Windows server. Wait, besides that, I'm pretty sure it's not even possible anymore to host MS-ASP on Unix/Linux. It used to be done through Chillisoft, but now Sun bought it and incorporated it into Sun One. So yeah, I don't think it's even possible.

~Matt

[Jason Lee]

mono is an open source asp.net interpretor for *nix systems.

http://www.mono-project.com/about/index.html

[Jason Lee]

Another thing that would be nice is...

bin, var, ect, usr folders only created for domains with shell accounts instead of every account (should be simple enough for swsoft to do)

[Mark Priest]

I think that AWSTATS needs to be added to the unix versiona asap, i mean, why is it in the windows and not unix? i dont understand.

I've got customers screaming at me because i used to run AWSTATS and webablizer is PANTS!

[Cranky]

- Spamassassin 3 support

[Regal]

I have a /25 of Ip addresses and there is no support for this.

So I have to manually write my DNS files.

Very Discouraging

[midibach]

When you say a /25, do you mean the CIDR mask? Does 255.255.255.128 subnet not work?

[Traged1]

Please change the entry in the domains http.include file when coldfusionmx support is turned on.

[Sun Oct 31 04:04:37 2004] [notice] jrApache[init] "JRunConfig Ssl" ignored for virtual server since it must be set at the global level.

This is what I get everytime apache restarts, there are 350 domains all complaining about the JRunConfig Ssl when it doen not need to be included in the vhosts files, you only need to specify this when using the main config inside of the httpd.conf file which we are not using in this arrangment.

The real problem is that it is making my logs huge, and slowing down the reloading of the apache server quite bad.

Please remove that line.

[Regal]

I have 2 ips that are my registered name servers.

I then have an IP range of xx.xxx.x.0 through 127 routed to those IP's The IP range has been delegated to me by my upstream provider. Thinks work fone going forward but a reverse lookup for the ip range fails.

There is no control for /25 in CP (24 is as small as it goes).




There is no zone file In Named Conf for the IP range.
(something similar to this should be there)

zone "25/0.2.179.66.in-addr.arpa" in {
type master;
file "25-0.x.xxx.xx.in-addr.arpa";
};

$TTL 86400


And the file that is pointed to:

25-0.x.xxx.xx.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA
ns1.domain.com. postmaster.ns1.domain.com. (
1083656332 ; Serial
10800 ; Refresh
3600 ; Retry
604800 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum

25-0.2.179.66.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns1.domain.com.
1.25-0.x.xxx.xx.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR adomain.com.
2.25-0.x.xxx.xx.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR otherdomain.com.

Or something like that.


So once agai revers DNS lookup fails as there is no support for /25. Lots of Lame servers. General fun to be had.

Is there support for /25 that I am missing?
Sorry I don't know what a CDIR is.

Thanks for the insight.

:rolleyes:

[midibach]

Did you actually register those IPs from ARIN or RIPE? I doubt it because I don't think they hand out those small of blocks. I don't think they even split class Cs.

If not, you shouldn't be worried about the reverse DNS on that level. It is my understanding that your upstream provider handles that. At least, that's how ours is. We have a few /25s (128 blocks) from our provider that have been delegated to our router and reverse DNS is not a problem for us. As far as I understand, at this level the rDNS is only to help local lookups. Using /24 doesn't seem to cause any problems here.

[Regal]

I'm glad it has not been a problem for you.

[waremock]

Delivered-To Header Problem. My wish is that the Delivered-To problem be fixed.

example

Delivered-To: 8-email@domain.com

Developers, please remove the number in front of the email. It is the most annoying thing. I had to add to all my 200 emails an 8- in front of every email so that it routes properly to my exchange server.

[matt.simpson]

Originally posted by waremock
Delivered-To Header Problem. My wish is that the Delivered-To problem be fixed.

example

Delivered-To: 8-email@domain.com

Developers, please remove the number in front of the email. It is the most annoying thing. I had to add to all my 200 emails an 8- in front of every email so that it routes properly to my exchange server.

This is how qMail handles internal mail delivery, it's not a Plesk thing. Did you turn off the "Mail" feature for the domain you're trying to route to the exchange server?

~Matt

[waremock]

I actually use the the mail feature. I have a catch all mailbox for my domain. all the mail then gets pulled by my exchange gateway and then it gets delivered to my exchange server. I do this so that I have 3 points where I can scan for viruses before it gets to the end users.

Is there a way to eliminate qmail from adding that 8- in front of each email?

[matt.simpson]

Originally posted by waremock
I actually use the the mail feature. I have a catch all mailbox for my domain. all the mail then gets pulled by my exchange gateway and then it gets delivered to my exchange server. I do this so that I have 3 points where I can scan for viruses before it gets to the end users.

Is there a way to eliminate qmail from adding that 8- in front of each email?
Nope. Not that I'm aware of. You scan e-mail three times for viruses? That's a bit overkill isn't it?

~Matt

[waremock]

I know, but my employer is a bit paranoid. I use f-prot on the plesk server, Norton on the exchange gateway and Panda on the exchange server. I also do SPAM filtering.

Where should I go for help on this issue?

[justyxxxx]

I would like to eventually see Plesk integrated with a radius application and billing application so that it can serve exclusively as the solution for people like me. I provide dial-up and broadband and I have to use three systems - one for billing - one for authentication - and Plesk for mail and personal websites.

[justyxxxx]

I'd also like to have more control over access rights. For instance, I'd prefer that my customers not be able to change their passwords manually. It'd be nice to be able to enable/disable this thru the control panel.

[waremock]

Originally posted by matt.simpson
This is how qMail handles internal mail delivery, it's not a Plesk thing.


Matt, I could not find a single thing that this is the way qmail handles mail. I think this is something that the plesk group added. Hopefully they eliminate this niusance.

[hostcorp]

Originally posted by waremock
Matt, I could not find a single thing that this is the way qmail handles mail. I think this is something that the plesk group added. Hopefully they eliminate this niusance.

Incorrect. The number indicates which virtualdomain the email address belongs to.

RTFM.

[waremock]

Here is the problem that I'm having.
Email process in plesk (qmail) will be tagged with a number just before the email address in the email header.

Example:

Return-Path: <m.sheabv@stageone.dk>
Delivered-To: 8-email@abc.com.sg
Received: (qmail 18295 invoked by uid 110); 18 May 2004 04:39:24 -0000
Delivered-To: 8-ip@abc.com.sg

Where "email@abc.com.sg" is the catch-all box.

Then a POP3 downloader will collect email from the plesk server to deliver email to the exchange server.

Problems:
1) When someone BCC to a user of abc.com.sg, an error of "NO VALID RECIPIENTS FOR MESSAGE" occur.

2) Same problem when someone send to a mailing list, where a user of abc.com.sg is in the list.

No problem when To: & CC: field has a valid email address of the recipients.

So the tagging of a number before the email address in the email header become an invalid email address when it reach another email server like exchange server, thus resulted in mail delivery error.

Anyone has any Idea how to fix this problem?

[hostcorp]

You could try running odeiavir on the mail account with the -r option to force the rewriting of the 'To:' header.

Search these forums for odeiavir - it's a virus scanner interface for qmail.

[matt.simpson]

I'd also find it useful to have an "Administrator Notes" area somewhere in the interface that was available to the admin only. Just a little textarea or something that I could type a bit of info in either for future reference or for another admin to see or something.

I think this would be handy and simple.

~Matt Simpson

[waremock]

Is there a simple way to email all your clients from plesk yet? If not I would like that.

[ideawire_bb]

Yes! This should be simple to do, but I had to manually query the database from the commandline to pull the email addresses.

[ideawire_bb]

TMDA Support would be really, really nice.

[matt.simpson]

I think that displaying the size of each e-mail account on the "Mail" page would be extremely useful. I often get e-mails from people who's domain is over their limits and they're not sure who to contact within their organisation to delete their old mail from the server.

This would be very useful.

Regards,
Matt Simpson

[smtalk]

Ability to change root password in PLESK.

[Cranky]

Originally posted by smtalk
Ability to change root password in PLESK.

Plesk doesn't run as root (security advantage) and doesn't know the root password. I don't want this adding as it will mean some of our customers who have been delegated admin access will have full root access to the server.

[midibach]

The ability to list all domains under a client using the creation utilities.

I understand this is possible with the right MySQL query, but having this feature built into the creation utilities would help reduce the possible amount of changes made when adapting existing in-house scripts to newer Plesk versions.

[JoaoCorreia]

More ftp users for one domain with the ability to map directory where user lands.

Regards
Joao Correia

[gbjbaanb]

One suggestion I have is to install Nagios with some default plugins for monitoring Plesk web services.

Nagios is a open-source server monitoring tool, (www.nagios.org), you can get the rpms and install it to monitor several features of your server and report if anything goes amiss.

I don't think it'll work if the server goes totally belly up (as it lives on the server and sends emails out on error), but in conjunction with a simple remote port monitor it could be a very effective value-added feature to Plesk.

[gbjbaanb]

I've just seen a post on another thread:

Apart from the firewall module Plesk is working on to place in 7.5? I'd rather plesk could simply integrate APF and provide a web interface to the apf.conf file. Much easier than writing your own guys, and APF is stable, mature and reliable. You could stick BFD in as well.

Yes, the suggestion: allow a user to untar (or unzip) a file from the file manager. Currently, if you don't have SSH access, you must untar an archive and ftp the whole lot, file by file which takes ages. An untar option in the web file manager would provide a useful function for clients who aren;t allowed SSH access.

[JoaoCorreia]

Better looking and more features !

awstats

[TDuncklee]

How about a way to see real-time or near real-time bandwidth usage by domain.

[Xcalibur]

Well, Plesk 7.1's successor is available now: Plesk 7.5

Lets hope that most of this suggestions were considered for being included and that this 7 pages were not just a waste of time. :)

Regards!

[gbjbaanb]

yes, perhaps we can close this thread and start a new one.

[Cranky]

I asked Todd to move this thread here as 95%+ of the requests in this thread aren't included in Plesk 7.5 but would be useful in Plesk 8. When Plesk 7.1 was released I got the Plesk 7 feature request thread closed, and created a new one copying all the non-included features copied across, but as Plesk 7.5 doesn't include the majority of this threads requested features it still really applies - and should be kept active in the Plesk 7.5 forum I feel.

Agreed?

[YeLpO]

I want to see FTP Subaccounts as a new feature!
I want to see FTP Subaccounts as a new feature!
I want to see FTP Subaccounts as a new feature!
I want to see FTP Subaccounts as a new feature!
I want to see FTP Subaccounts as a new feature!
I want to see FTP Subaccounts as a new feature!
I want to see FTP Subaccounts as a new feature!
I want to see FTP Subaccounts as a new feature!

PLEASE!

[Cranky]

- Reseller-level creation utilities (so resellers can link a system such as modernbill to Plesk for automated account creation, etc.)

- A basic and advanced interface selection (basic including the odd thing such as FTP password changes, mailbox setup - basically a very simple interface for users who don't have a clue, and standard Plesk interface for those who do - controllable by admin/client/domain level)

- Advanced feature selection (such as not showing any of the hosting stuff if we want to setup an email only domain-level account) - similar to button hiding I guess

- Web user control panel access

- ProFTPd SSL patch

- ClamAV (or qmail-scanner style optional antivirus integration so I can use F-Prot) integration (I know it's been said, but I'm in the sort of mood to want to repeat it)

- Easy-to-configure control panel access so that we can serve Plesk from port 443 on a specific IP rather than messing with httpsd.conf, etc. to bind Plesk to an IP for behind-firewall access when 8443 is blocked

- Password-protected directories for subdomains

- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- aww come on ... you know we need it :P

- Advanced reseller branding (ability to add welcome message to main page of control panel etc.)

- Automated client backups (similar to domain-level, but client-wide)

[proserve]

Originally posted by Cranky
- Reseller-level creation utilities (so resellers can link a system such as modernbill to Plesk for automated account creation, etc.)

- A basic and advanced interface selection (basic including the odd thing such as FTP password changes, mailbox setup - basically a very simple interface for users who don't have a clue, and standard Plesk interface for those who do - controllable by admin/client/domain level)

- Advanced feature selection (such as not showing any of the hosting stuff if we want to setup an email only domain-level account) - similar to button hiding I guess

- Web user control panel access

- ProFTPd SSL patch

- ClamAV (or qmail-scanner style optional antivirus integration so I can use F-Prot) integration (I know it's been said, but I'm in the sort of mood to want to repeat it)

- Easy-to-configure control panel access so that we can serve Plesk from port 443 on a specific IP rather than messing with httpsd.conf, etc. to bind Plesk to an IP for behind-firewall access when 8443 is blocked

- Password-protected directories for subdomains

- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- aww come on ... you know we need it :P

- Advanced reseller branding (ability to add welcome message to main page of control panel etc.)

- Automated client backups (similar to domain-level, but client-wide)

AMEN!!

ohw and

- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- Domain vhost and email aliasing

this option is requested all the time!

[smtalk]

Ability to choose: automatic update (to stable), atomatic update (to latest) or manual update. (into autoupdater preferences)

Ability to prevent user 'nobody' from sending out mail to remote addresses.

[Ronaldve]

Originally posted by proserve
AMEN!!

ohw and

- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- Domain vhost and email aliasing
- Domain vhost and email aliasing

this option is requested all the time!

This is wat i want to be in Plesk too :D :(

[faris]

Originally posted by gbjbaanb
I'd rather plesk could simply integrate APF and provide a web interface to the apf.conf file.

As far as I can see, the AFP firewall does not support multiple Ethernet adapters. At least not with the default script.

And since many servers, including all of mine, have multiple ehternet adapters, this could be a problem.

I'm not sure if Plesk 7.5's built-in firewall copes with this situation either mind you!

Faris.

[cviviani]

gui for backup and restore

[Dr Zoidberg]

Being useless with command line stuff (a friend does it for me), the auto-updater is an excellent feature.

A naive question, perhaps, but could this feature's functionality be extended to enable selective updating of various services - eg php - from within the Plesk interface?

Also, could the status field be a little more specific? I believe that not all options are freely available - some require an additional licence. It would be nice to see this specified by each of the recommended components, so I know which components I am free to install and which require a further purchase.

What hansm said about Webalizer too - the current referrer stats are useless and is, as I understand it, a simple fix for a long-standing issue.

I'm sure someone better qualified can tell me why any of these would be bad ideas!

[cherylchase]

per-subdomain vhost.conf

[Cranky]

Originally posted by cherylchase
per-subdomain vhost.conf

ftp://download1.sw-soft.com/Plesk/Plesk7.5/Doc/plesk-7.5r-admins-guide-html/apas02.html

[NightStorm]

I'd like to see the ability to add additional ports to the traffic monitoring... if I have a user running a shoutcast, the bandwidth that it uses does not count towards the users monthly quota... which in a way says that Plesk is inaccurately reporting usage.

[justyxxxx]

I think there should be a more sophisticated user options for enabling/disabling access to certain features. For instance, allow the ability to disable password changes, spam changes, etc on a user basis and on a client basis. For instance, I use third party programs to help with billing and I really don't like the radius server having one password and the Plesk server having a separate password. Or, I might not want customers turning off their mailboxes, and so disabling access to this feature would be good. Basically, just more options on a user/client/reseller basis for disabling/enabling access.

Also, the option to grey out the disabled item or even have it disappear and the other options fill up the space where that option was previously.

[thundercon787]

I've configerued my plesk server to run livemon stats instead of webalizer stats...

its easy to do.. and i can probably get you a discount with those guys over these at livemon.com

-Mike

[Cranky]

New thread:
http://forum.plesk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21558

Let's try to keep posts in there ... tidier that way. :)

[bensontrent]

Autoresponder needs ability to reply to "reply-to" field

[Cranky]

Originally posted by bensontrent
Autoresponder needs ability to reply to "reply-to" field

Booooo ... post it HERE:
http://forum.plesk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21558

... please. :)

And yep I agree, that's a bug IMHO though.