Email error – The certificate does not match the expected identity of the site that it was retrieved from.

The certificate does not match the expected identity of the site that it was retrieved from.
The server's identity does not match the identity in the certificate
Hostname in certificate didn't match

The reason for the above errors are due to the fact that the email client is trying to use mail.mydomain.com and the email server is mail.emailserver.com.

So the email client pulls the certificate for mail.emailserver.com and reads that this certificate is for mail.emailserver.com, NOT for mail.mydomain.com. Hence the conflict and it throws an error.

If you can, accepting the certificate should let everything work. It appears that on recent versions of iOS their may be some problems trusting it. The other work around is to use the actual mail server host. So mail.emailserver.com

cPanel custom Dovecot Query to delete email

In cPanel under an email account you can Free up Email Storage. There is a Custom query field which allows you to specify a custom Dovecot query to run. Couple examples below.

Delete email from email address

from sent@email.com

Email that contains a specific string in the message body

body "string to match in message body"

Other useful info
https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/SearchQuery

cPanel/WHM – Apache SpamAssassin add Domain to Blacklist or Whitelist from SSH Command Line

The domains are stored in the “~/.spamassassin/user_prefs” config file.

To blacklist a domain just add it to the config file.

blacklist_from *.domain_to_block.com

To whitelist, change blacklist to whitelist

whitelist_from *.incredigeek.com

Save and exit the file.

Moving emails to new host with imapsync

More info about imapsync here

Install imapsync

CentOS 7, Works on cPanel servers too

yum install epel-release && yum install imapsync

Once installed check and make sure it works.

imapsync --version

If it gives you the version number you should be good to go.

Move email account

imapsync --host1 mail.emaildomain.com --user1 username@emaildomain.com --password1  "password1" --host2 mail.exampledomain.com --user2 username@movetodomain.com --password2  "password2"

Example :

imapsync --host1 mail.myemail.com --user1 bob@myemail.com --password1  "password1" --host2 mail.incredigeek.com --user2 bob@incredigeek.com --password2  "password2"

Moving Multiple accounts

Best way to move multiple accounts is to use a script and and a list that contains all the usernames and passwords to the accounts you want to move.

example scripts can be found on the imapsync website here is a script example and here is the example file.txt

Example script.

#!/bin/sh
#
# $Id: sync_loop_unix.sh,v 1.6 2015/11/04 18:23:04 gilles Exp gilles $

# Example for imapsync massive migration on Unix systems.
# See also http://imapsync.lamiral.info/FAQ.d/FAQ.Massive.txt
#
# Data is supposed to be in file.txt in the following format:
# host001_1;user001_1;password001_1;host001_2;user001_2;password001_2;
# ...
# Separator is character semi-colon ";" it can be changed by any character changing IFS=';' 
# in the while loop below.
# # Each line contains 6 columns, columns are parameter values for 
# --host1 --user1 --password1 --host2 --user2 --password2
# and a trailing empty fake column to avaid CR LF part going 
# in the 6th parameter password2. Don't forget the last semicolon.
#
# You can add extra options after the variable "$@" 
# Use character backslash \ at the end of each suplementary line, except for the last one.
# You can also pass extra options via the parameters of this script since
# they will be in "$@"

# The credentials filename "file.txt" used for the loop can be renamed 
# by changing "file.txt" below.


echo Looping on account credentials found in file.txt
echo

{ while IFS=';' read  h1 u1 p1 h2 u2 p2 fake
    do 
        { echo "$h1" | egrep "^#" ; } > /dev/null && continue # this skip commented lines in file.txt
        echo "==== Starting imapsync from host1 $h1 user1 $u1 to host2 $h2 user2 $u2 ===="
        imapsync --host1 "$h1" --user1 "$u1" --password1 "$p1" \
                 --host2 "$h2" --user2 "$u2" --password2 "$p2" \
                 "$@"  
        echo "==== Ended imapsync from host1 $h1 user1 $u1 to host2 $h2 user2 $u2 ===="
        echo
    done 
} < file.txt

Example list of accounts to

mail.maildomain.com;user1@incredigeek.com;password1;mail.incredigeek.com;user2@incredigeek.com;password2;

 

How to use,

You can run these command from a Linux computer

Download script

wget www.incredigeek.com/home/downloads/imapsync/imapsync_loop.sh

Make the script executable

chmod +x imapsync_loop.sh

Create a text file named “imapsync_list.txt”

This file will contain the mail server to transfer from, username, and password, and then the mail server to transfer to, username and password.  Add one line per account.

Example:

mail.servertotransferfrom.com;Username1;Password1;mail.servertomoveto.com;Username2;Password2;
mail.servertotransferfrom.com;testuser;123456;mail.servertomoveto.com;bob;123456;

Execute the script to start moving mail

./imapsync_loop.sh

Troubleshooting

In the username you may need to use the username@domainname.tld, so if the username is bob, and the mail domain is incredigeek.com, use bob@incredigeek.com for the username in the imapsync_list.txt.