Managing Centralized Mail Servers

This section provides information on how you can create and further manage Centralized Mail servers.

Plesk Expand allows you to create a Centralized Mail server which can function as a mail exchange server for several Plesk servers. A Centralized Mail server is created by defining one of Plesk servers registered in Plesk Expand as a mail server. After that, several other Plesk servers are assigned to this mail server. The Centralized Mail server handles all the mail to/from the Plesk users (Plesk clients and domains) registered on these assigned Plesk servers. When this feature is activated, the Mail icon on the administration page of each assigned Plesk server becomes active. By clicking on this icon a user can proceed to the administration page of the Centralized Mail server this Plesk server is assigned to.

The list of all Centralized Mail servers presently registered in Plesk Expand is presented on the Centralized Mail page. You can access this page by clicking the Centralized Mail shortcut in the navigation pane.

The Centralized Mail page displays a snapshot of the service statistics in the Centralized Mail Stats fieldset. The fieldset displays the total number of objects engaged in the service: Centralized Mail servers (Total servers), mail user accounts (Total accounts); mail user accounts are further subdivided into domain (Total domains) and Plesk client accounts (Total clients). It also also shows the number of objects on which some issues have occured (Problem servers, Problem accounts, Total domains, Total clients). All total numbers are clickable; by clicking them you proceed to managing objects of the corresponding type.

The page also displays a list of centralized mail servers registered in Plesk Expand. It provides the following information:


Column	Description
ID	Shows the ID number of a mail server. The ID number is given to each mail server automatically upon its registration in Plesk Expand and depends on the order of its registration. It means that the first mail server registered in Plesk Expand gets ID number 1, the second registered server – ID number 2 and so on.
Net status	Shows the network status of the mail server	The mail server is currently online; the centralized mail service is running.
		Some errors have occurred on this mail server.
Sync. status	Shows the synchronization status of the mail server against the assigned Plesk servers	All mail accounts on this mail server are synchronized with the corresponding user accounts (domains or Plesk clients) on the assigned Plesk servers.
		For some centralized mail accounts, information is outdated. Click Centralized Mail Accounts to view all mail accounts and find out which of them need synchronization. To synchronize a mail account with the user account on the Plesk server, click Reload account on the administration page of the corresponding mail account.
Mail Server	Shows the mail server name.
Plesk clients	Indicated the number of Plesk clients serviced by the mail server.
Domains	Indicates the number of domains serviced by the mail server.
Plesk Servers	Shows a list of Plesk servers assigned to this mail server.

You can perform the following operations on this page:

To add a new mail server to Plesk Expand, click New Mail Server.
To view and manage the centralized mail accounts, click Centralized Mail Accounts. Centralized mail accounts are Plesk clients and domains subscribed to the Centralized Mail service.
To proceed to the administration page of a desired mail server, click its name.
To search for a particular mail server, enter its ID, name, the names of the assigned Plesk servers, or specify the status (OK, Problem, All) in the corresponding data fields and click Search. To revert to the entire list of mail servers, click Show All.
To remove a mail server from Plesk Expand, select the corresponding checkbox and click Remove Selected. A confirmation page appears prior to removal.
Note: 1. The mail server cannot be removed from Plesk Expand until all Plesk servers are deassigned from this mail server. You can deassign Plesk servers from the mail server on the Mail Server administration page.

2. The mail server will be unregistered from Plesk Expand, but the Plesk server on which this mail server has been set up remains active in the system.

In This Section

Preparing Mail Server for Registration

Registering New Mail Server in Plesk Expand

Administering Mail Server

Reloading Mail Server

Removing Centralized Mail Server from Plesk Expand