Max Emails Per Hour, Please Help

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.

 

In addition, Don forget to run /scripts/build_maxemails_config if it is a new version of cpanel.

 

What exactly do /scripts/build_maxemails_config?

Thanx!

 

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.

 

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

 

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 ...

 

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!

 

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?

 

Emails are dropped with a message, and logged. Queuing would make the limit worthless.