Quick how-to run and upgrade from the command line
Do not SSH into the server. Use KVM or a local connection to the server
Login
sudo bash
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
do-release-upgrade
The server will upgrade to the latest version
Quick How-To for getting composer 2 to work since composer 1 has been deprecated
Login to a terminal
sudo bash
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt install php-cli unzip
exit
cd ~
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer -o /tmp/composer-setup.php
HASH=`curl -sS https://composer.github.io/installer.sig`
echo hash
php -r “if (hash_file(‘SHA384’, ‘/tmp/composer-setup.php’) === ‘$HASH’) { echo ‘Installer verified’; } else { echo ‘Installer corrupt’; unlink(‘composer-setup.php’); } echo PHP_EOL;”
Installer will be verified
sudo php /tmp/composer-setup.php –install-dir=/usr/local/bin –filename=composer
Composer will download and install
Then Type:
composer
You should see a Composer info screen
Quick how-to on the way I upgraded mautic, since upgrading through the web breaks my installations every time.
Login into your Virtualmin
Backup all of your virtual servers
Download the backups to your pc
Open Putty
SSH to Server
sudo su –
cd to your mautic directory (/home/user/html)
php bin/console mautic:update:find
php bin/console mautic:update:apply
php bin/console mautic:update:apply –finish
Open your mautic installation, refresh the web page, check the bottom right, and you will see the latest version. In my case it is 4.4.8
Here is a quick and easy way to view all the contacts in a segment. Lets use the Bounced Emails segment.
Navigate to Contacts
In the filter box at the top, write:
segment:bounced-emails
Press Enter
All of your bounced emails will show. Now you can select the person, and Add them to another segment, or remove them completely from a segment.
Mautic has a feature where not only is a bounced email added to the bounced-emails segment, it also has a Bounced Flag, that has to be reset for you to email a user again. You can remove it one by one for each user, however if you have hundreds of thousands of users, you will need a more efficient way.
Here is that way
Log into your Mautic Server
Log into your Webmin Server
Click Servers
Click MariaDB Database Server
Select the Database
Click the Execute SQL button at the bottom
Execute:DELETE FROM lead_donotcontact WHERE reason = 2
The flag will be reset
Back in Mautic..
Go into Contacts
In the Filter box enter in:
segment:bounced-emails
Press Enter
Select All contacts and remove them from the segment (DO NOT DELETE THEM)
and you can now email them again….
Quick How-To for updating pihole on Ubuntu
Open a terminal
Type:
sudo apt-get update
Enter in your password
Type
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Enter in your password
Type
pihole -up
Enter in your password
Pihole updates
That is it!
For those of you who need to get a positive reputation on your domain for email campaigns, you first need to warm up the domain. Here is a simple power automate flow to assist with the task.
Login into Office.com
Click on the Menu to the Top Left of the screen
Select Power Automate
Click My Flows
Click +New Flow
Select Scheduled Cloud Flow
Give it a Name, Start Date, and Interval on how often you want it to run
Click Next
Click + Next Step
Type in mail and press Enter
Select Send EMAIL V3
Put in the FROM address of a user for the new domain you want to send email to
ex: user@tacticalware.com
Enter in a To Address for another email you own, that is off domain from the domain you are warming up.
ex: tacticalwarexyz123@gmail.com
Enter in a Subject
Add some Text to the Body
Click Save
Test your Flow, and email should go though now.
Next you will want to setup an auto reply on the receiving email address, and also setup a power automate flow from the email domain so you can generate content coming out of it.
For those of you who need to get a positive reputation on your domain for email campaigns, you first need to warm up the domain. Here is a simple power automate flow to assist with the task.
Login into Office.com
Click on the Menu to the Top Left of the screen
Select Power Automate
Click My Flows
Click +New Flow
Select Scheduled Cloud Flow
Give it a Name, Start Date, and Interval on how often you want it to run
Click Next
Click + Next Step
Type in mail and press Enter
Select Send an Email V2
Put in the address of a user for the new domain you want to send email to
ex: user@tacticalware.com
Enter in a Subject
Add some Text to the Body
Click Save
Test your Flow, and email should go though now.
Next you will want to setup an auto reply on the receiving email address, and also setup a power automate flow from the email domain so you can generate content coming out of it.
This one is quick and easy. You need to know the record info that was setup with the DNS Provider to do it
Go to https://MXToolBox.com/NetworkTools.aspx
Find the DKIM Box
Enter in the domain:selector info
Example – tacticalware.com:mydkim
Press the DKIM Lookup button
If it is setup properly you will see in green, the dkim information. If it is setup improperly, you will see an error, as you would see if you searched for the dkim tacticalware.com:mydkim
Here is how to backup your DNS information in GoDaddy
Login into your account
Navigate to https://dcc.godaddy.com/control/portfolio
Identify the Domain name you want to backup
Click the three dots next to it “…“
Select Edit DNS
On the DNS MANAGEMENT page, next to the ADD button, click the Three Dots “…“
Select Export Zone File
Your DNS will backup to your computer.
Save it to somewhere special, and go on your merry way
