{"id":3530,"date":"2010-10-27T19:42:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T23:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2025-03-09T15:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T19:47:56","slug":"howto-disable-mailman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/howto-disable-mailman\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable Mailman on a cPanel Server"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>Mailman<\/strong> is a mailing list manager included in cPanel. If you do not use mailing lists and want to disable Mailman to free up server resources or prevent unwanted list creation, you can do so by restricting its execute permissions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2>Step 1: Disable Mailman<\/h2>\r\n<p>Run the following command as root via SSH to disable Mailman:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<pre><code>chmod -x \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/3rdparty\/mailman\/mail\/wrapper<\/code><\/pre>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>This removes the execute permission from the Mailman wrapper, preventing it from running.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Step 2: Verify Mailman Is Disabled<\/h2>\r\n<p>To check if Mailman is disabled, try running a Mailman-related command. If it&#8217;s disabled, you should see a permission error.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Step 3: Re-enable Mailman (If Needed)<\/h2>\r\n<p>If you need to restore Mailman functionality, re-enable it with:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<pre><code>chmod +x \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/3rdparty\/mailman\/mail\/wrapper<\/code><\/pre>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<h2>Alternative: Completely Remove Mailman<\/h2>\r\n<p>If you want to completely remove Mailman from your cPanel server, use:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<pre><code>yum remove mailman<\/code><\/pre>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<h2>Need Assistance?<\/h2>\r\n<p>If you need help managing Mailman or other cPanel services, UnderHost\u2019s expert support team is available 24\/7. Contact us via <a href=\"https:\/\/customerpanel.ca\/client\" target=\"_blank\">@CustomerPanel<\/a> for professional assistance.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disable Mailman mailing lists on your cPanel server by modifying its execute permissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controlpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5138,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/5138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}