Bulk check - maximum percentage of failed or deferred messages a domain may send per hour

[jtgroup]

Hello everyone,

Sorry to bother you but I was wondering, is there a way to check all accounts on a server for the current 'Maximum percentage of failed or deferred messages a domain may send per hour' setting? Obviously I can check each account individually but can I generate a report / see a table of all accounts and their current setting?

Kind regards


James

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! No need to apologize - we're here to be bothered!

The easiest way to check these at once would be to examine the /var/cpanel/users/username file for the user in question and check the following block of values:

MAX_DEFER_FAIL_PERCENTAGE=unlimited
MAX_EMAILACCT_QUOTA=unlimited
MAX_EMAIL_PER_HOUR=unlimited

"unlimited" is the default for those unless they have been changed.

If you'd rather set up a more automated tool for this, you can use the modifyacct API call with no values to return the current settings:

whmapi1 modifyacct user=username

More details on that can be found here: Update cPanel account · cPanel & WHM Developer Portal

 

[jtgroup]

Hi,

Thank you for getting back to me. I would like to check all accounts in one go though, rather than checking each one individually. Is this possible?

Kind regards


James

 

[cPRex]

That's where you'd need to do some custom scripting using the modifyacct API call, possibly with a text file to loop through the usernames on the server. I don't have anything pre-written for that situation available, so it would be some custom development work for sure.

I tested this on my own server and it worked well:

for i in `cat /etc/trueuserdomains | awk {'print $2'}`; do whmapi1 modifyacct user=$i | grep -E 'USER|MAX_DEFER_FAIL_PERCENTAGE' ; done

although it will not return an entry for a user if the value isn't set specifically for that user. For an example of that, see how there is nothing above user 4 in the following output:

# for i in `cat /etc/trueuserdomains | awk {'print $2'}`; do whmapi1 modifyacct user=$i | grep -E 'USER|MAX_DEFER_FAIL_PERCENTAGE' ; done
    MAX_DEFER_FAIL_PERCENTAGE: unlimited
    USER: user1
    MAX_DEFER_FAIL_PERCENTAGE: unlimited
    USER: user2
    MAX_DEFER_FAIL_PERCENTAGE: unlimited
    USER: user3
    USER: user4