Category Archives: Plesk

The mail utility is used to manage domain mail service and mail names (e-mail accounts) through CLI. By using this utility, you can perform the following tasks:

Plesk Controlpanel has several tools to retrieve the ‘admin’ password to gain entrance to the Controlpanel. Up to version 10.2 these were just unencrypted text files (say what?) on the server. Since 10.2 you need to use a command to retrieve them in plain text (sounds better, doesn’t it?).

Using the command line is sometimes a lot quicker than fannying around with a panel in the browser. So to grab a quick summary of a users mailbox, the following one-liner will show all you need:

There is a built in command to get the email/passwords in plesk. When you ssh to the server just use the following: