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How to override auto-detected Email Settings in iOS

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The nature of any automation is that sometimes it just doesn’t work. Apple’s iOS is no exception. When you add a new email account on your iOS device, several mail providers’ settings can be auto detected. It’s there to make our lives easier so that we don’t have to add details for mail servers and ports … Read more

How to increase the number of simultaneous IMAP connections in Plesk

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Plesk-LogoBy default Plesk sets up the IMAP Email Service on your server so that four simultaneous connections can be made from the same IP address in the same timeframe. This is to protect your servers from too many connections.

This however isn’t cutting it if you have a small office full of people on the same IP, connecting from 4 computers, 16 iphones and 12 iPads every 5 minutes.

The solution: tweak the IMAP configuration file, restart the daemon and have a good life. Let me show you how to do it on Plesk 11 and CentOS 6.4.

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