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Max Emails Per Hour, Please Help

Discussion in 'E-mail Discussions' started by mm1250, Feb 19, 2008.

  1. mm1250

    mm1250 Well-Known Member

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    Hello,

    I have the Max Emails per hour set to 125 for my cPanel server. This is to help get rid of spammers. But I do have a site that does newletter mailings and has roughly 500 members. I need to be able to allow them to send upto 550 email per hour but only for that account, not serverwide.

    How can I do this in WHM or commandline or whatever?
     
    #1 mm1250, Feb 19, 2008
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    Kevinfrom Well-Known Member

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    You can specify a max emails per hour limit per domain also, just create a file here and change domain.com to the domain you need to set it up for

    /var/cpanel/maxemailsperdomain/domain.com

    Then just add the numeric amount of max emails you want that domain to use in that file.
     
    #2 Kevinfrom, Feb 20, 2008
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    In addition, Don forget to run /scripts/build_maxemails_config if it is a new version of cpanel.
     
    #3 anushkumar, Feb 20, 2008
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    What exactly do /scripts/build_maxemails_config?

    Thanx!
     
    #4 manokiss, Jun 6, 2008
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    That's only needed if you update the single master text file /var/cpanel/maxemails. If you update the /var/cpanel/maxemailsperdomain/domain.com file directly you don't need to run it.
     
    #5 brianoz, Jun 7, 2008
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    None of this will stop spammers that exploit a form script right?

    Does cPanel settings only restrict emails per hour for messages sent via Exim, not those via PHP?

    Thanks,

    - Vince
     
    #6 mambovince, Jun 7, 2008
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    That's the whole point. PHP sends mail via exim, so yes, it will stop most form exploits.

    The exception is that sometimes spammers will break into a form script to send spam directly via port 25. The cpanel SMTP tweak, or the CSF firewall, will stop this from happening.

    * the CSF firewall is available from configserver.com and is essential for cpanel, in my opinion ...
     
    #7 brianoz, Jun 7, 2008
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    Thanx for the info brianoz!

    About your last post wondering how you have configured CSF to block the emails, i know it have an option to limit the emails, but i do not see any option to limit it per user.

    Thanx!
     
    #8 manokiss, Jun 8, 2008
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    What really happens when a user exceeds this limit? The mails keep in queue until hourly restriction is open again? or s imply are them deleted from the queue?
     
    #9 Kent Brockman, Jun 19, 2008
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    Emails are dropped with a message, and logged. Queuing would make the limit worthless.
     
    #10 brianoz, Jun 19, 2008
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