Limit outbound email Solo license

[jeffschips]

CENTOS 7.6 kvm v80.0.18

License: Solo

I am attempting to limit the outbound email for just one email account. Since I have the solo license, it doesn't look like the instructions, here, work:

How to Set Email Send Limits - cPanel Knowledge Base - cPanel Documentation

Any suggestions on limiting outbound email for just one domain when using a solo license?

 

[sampride]

no, you can set the limit just for one email account. Is either a cpanel account or globally.

 

[jeffschips]

Ok. Got it. I thought so. Solo can't do this but the standard cpanel account can I gather.

 

[cPanelLauren]

Hi @jeffschips

This should work, I've tested in on a Solo server, is /etc/email_send_limits being updated with the addition you're making in /var/cpanel/users/$user?

 

[jeffschips]

Ah! I see. I've found those files but don't know the correct syntax to limit just one email account. I do see the domain I wish to limit sending for. For example in the subject domain it currently shows:

thisdomain.com: unlimited,unlimited,5
thisdomain.topleveldomain.com: unlimited,unlimited,5

What would be the change here to limit the number of outound emails. As well, I do notice in the cpanel solo license repeating domain listings, such as above the actual domain then an entry with the actual domain and the add-on domain. What's up with that?

As for /var/cpanel/users/$user I see entries of domains and other settings and don't know what I'm supposed to input here.

Thank you for the revelation!

 

[cPanelLauren]

In /etc/email_send_limits it should be:
#format DOMAIN: MAX_EMAIL_PER_HOUR,MAX_DEFER_FAIL_PERCENTAGE,MIN_DEFER_FAIL_TO_TRIGGER_PROTECTION

domain.tld: 10,10,5

So that's
Domain: domain.tld:
MAX_EMAIL_PER_HOUR: 10
MAX_DEFER_FAIL_PERCENTAGE: 10
MIN_DEFER_FAIL_TO_TRIGGER_PROTECTION: 5

In my file it looks like the following:

[[email protected] ~]# cat /etc/email_send_limits
#version 1.0
#format DOMAIN: MAX_EMAIL_PER_HOUR,MAX_DEFER_FAIL_PERCENTAGE,MIN_DEFER_FAIL_TO_TRIGGER_PROTECTION
cptest.tld: 2,,5
*: 0,0,5

This should get automatically added to the email_send_limits but in the event it doesn't you should be able to add it now.

For /var/cpanel/users/$user you'd just need to add the following to set this per domain:

MAX_EMAIL_PER_HOUR-cptest.tld=2

2 being whatever you want the MAX_EMAIL_PER_HOUR to be


Then run:

/scripts/updateuserdomains