How to find out the last X emails sent.

[SuperBaby]

I am using RH9 + WHM/cPanel.

Is there is way to find out (from WHM or shell) the details of the last x number of emails sent?

Sometimes I see my server load is very high and the activity related is exim and clamscan. I just want to find out whether the emails being scanned is from my hosted customers or some hacker's activities.

[david510]

You may run the following script from the shell to see the last 100 mails successfully delivered from the server and mails delivered into the server.


Last 100 Mails successfully delivered through the mail server

 sed -n '/=>/p' /var/log/exim_mainlog |   sed -e :a -e '$q;N;101,$D;ba'

Last 100 Mails successfully sent through the mail server

 sed -n '/<=/p' /var/log/exim_mainlog |   sed -e :a -e '$q;N;101,$D;ba'

[SuperBaby]

Thank you. This is such an important piece of information for me. Very useful.

[david510]

You are welcome