change it to a more appropriate time - better still just shout at the domain owner by email perhaps.
It will go away when the time comes as all client have their domains set to auto renew. So it is of no use and just there to annoy me?
I believe we’ll have to ask @Ilia or Jamie if it’s possible to disable this one. I can’t find anything when I search for anything I can think to search for. Looking in the code it doesn’t look like it’s possible to disable it, but it really seems like notifications like this (especially ones that look alarming) should be able to be disabled. virtualmin-gpl/summary_domain.cgi at master · virtualmin/virtualmin-gpl · GitHub
Sorry @Joe not a great day for descriptive curses - I think that is better now.
@ID10T yes nothing to do with LE notices which has been set at 21days.
This is somewhere deep in Virtualmin code and it is annoying the hell out of me. I was hoping I had just missed some setting in theme somewhere. But this really needs to be in a per domain setting. There are now 3 domains listed. They are not owned by me but by a client and I phoned him to check and the domains are on “autorenew” with the registrar. They are not even due to be renewed until 7/7/23 so in my view the message is very aggressive as a “Warning” 5 days before the event! (Sort of Waning the End is Nigh) I understand that not everyone uses Virtualmin the way I do and not everyone checks their servers every day, but I’m that sad sort of guy!
There only 4 days to go? When is the auto renew happen, your leaving it late or is renewal not expiry.
the code elsif ($now > $d->{‘whois_expiry’} - 7* 24* 60* 60) {
the 7 in the code might mean 7 days to go, is that when the warning happens?
Appreciate that it might not be easy and probaby nice to have in some future release.
But surely - and even more so in the case of multiple domains - this should really be on a per domain basis Why shout at me (the Virtualmin “owner”) and not the domain owner? Do I even care if a user and domain owner does not renew a domain?
Presumably they would tick or not untick the option in among the theme or wherever it is presented as an option.
Doesn’t that detract from the purpose Virtualmin was created. I thought it was about users who own domains. not about one individual running a personal single server where that individual owns every domain put on it. I don’t see the requirement there for any warning. I have domains from several registrars and they all remind me in advance that they would like payment for their service even with auto renewal.
I guess that was why I suggested that the user/domain owner should get an email . Though I do see that adds a whole additional layer of complexity.
Still, I think many see the control panel as their overall eye on the prize. Dismissing a pop up warning is much less annoying than recovering from not having it.
I’ve had to baby sit some customers that were pretty clueless on the tech side of the business. But, that’s why they hired someone else to keep an eye on things.
