Disable Email For Single Account on WHM / Cpanel

If you are setting up MS Exchange for your domain hosted on a WHM / Cpanel server setup and migrating from a POP3 / IMAP account to an Exchange email account, soon you will realize that the emails sent by the local server is not being forwarded to the MS Exchange account but rather on the old POP3 / IMAP account. Similar to the situation of this administrator asking people from the Cpanel forums:

How to optimize GoDaddy Virtual Private Server - Kill Tomcat & Simple Control Panel

While searching for some optimization tips for Virtual Private Servers, I checked out this post which claimed that Godaddy (ahem) VPS sucked BUT offering a solution to those who were on the same boat (in this case, I).  Luckily, I tried out his solution and it has proven to speed up the Godaddy VPS.

To give an overview of our setup, we have a few (like 20 ?) websites hosted on the GoDaddy server and its occasionally bugging down. One optimization I did was to kill some processes that are not needed most of the time which takes up a few MBs of RAM from the server.

So here is the solution that I implemented on the said VPS as suggested by Colin McNamara - basically to stop the Apache Tomcat and Godaddy Simple Control Panel, which are used very rarely. But of course, if you need to use the Simple Control Panel, you can always start it up again then turn it off when you are done.

Here are the steps: