Plesk, I like you way better than cPanel, but you’re still a complete pain in the ass sometimes.

I found an article that explained exactly how to disable mail services for a domain in Plesk 10, which is necessary to prevent the server from attempting to deliver email locally.

But my Mail tab was missing completely!

Another article provided instructions to disable mail services for a domain in Plesk 10 via SSH, but that kind of defeats the purpose of using a point-and-click server administration interface, doesn’t it?

After much trial and error, I discovered there are exactly two different things you need to do to make sure the Mail tab shows up.

Server-wide, you need to turn on mail management (Tools & Settings > Mail Server Settings):

And then, for the domain in question—or for the service plan it’s associated with—you need to make sure mailboxes can be allocated. If you’ve set the quota to zero, the Mail tab won’t appear! So just change the value on the Resources tab:

Note that you don’t actually need to change the other two values.

That’s it! The Mail tab has reappeared in Power User view:

And after clicking Change Settings, we can go ahead and deactivate mail service for the domain.

As an added bonus, while the shell command only affects mail service on the specified domain, this point-and-click method disables mail service for all domains, subdomains, and aliases in the webspace. If, like me, you have a lot of subdomains and aliases, this is a huge timesaver.

Hopefully in time, the Parallels team will provide us with a better way to completely disable mail service in Plesk Panel; in a world with Google Apps, I can’t imagine very many people are administrating their own mail servers anymore. For now, the above instructions will have to do!

It’s sad that somebody needs to post this, but apparently somebody needs to post this.

This is NHL Rule 63.5:

No defending player, except the goalkeeper, will be permitted to fall on the puck, hold the puck, pick up the puck, or gather the puck into the body or hands when the puck is within the goal crease. For infringement of this rule, play shall immediately be stopped and a penalty shot shall be ordered against the offending team.

This is a puck in the crease.

This is NYR D Ryan McDonagh diving toward the puck in the crease.

This is the referee watching Ryan McDonagh reach for the puck in the crease.

This is Ryan McDonagh holding the puck in the crease.

This is the referee watching Ryan McDonagh continue to hold the puck in the crease.

This is Ryan McDonagh making absolutely sure he is holding the puck in the crease.

This is the certain goal Ryan McDonagh saved by holding the puck in the crease.

Ryan McDonagh made an excellent defensive play that prevented the tying goal. The referee was in an excellent position to see the play and correctly call a penalty shot. And Henrik Lundqvist made an excellent save on the penalty shot, securing the New York Rangers’ victory in the 2012 NHL Winter Classic.

The refereeing in the third period was questionable at best, but on this play, everyone did everything right. So stop complaining!