We just had a customer with an infected computer relay out 1000+ emails before we were able to stop it. This customer has the following setting under Modify Account:
Maximum Hourly Email by Domain Relayed = 100
It is true that the infected machine sent less than 100 actual emails, but each email had about 100 recipients.
So, the question is... is WHM limiting the number of messages sent, or the number of recipients? If all 100 email messages had gone out with 100 recipients, that would be 10,000 actual emails sent, even with a limit of 100.
The documentation does not make it clear to me:
So, either it is not counting total recipients OR there is a bug here. I do admit this server is on 11.44 LTS (due to a couple more months of FrontPage support)
- Scott
Maximum Hourly Email by Domain Relayed = 100
It is true that the infected machine sent less than 100 actual emails, but each email had about 100 recipients.
So, the question is... is WHM limiting the number of messages sent, or the number of recipients? If all 100 email messages had gone out with 100 recipients, that would be 10,000 actual emails sent, even with a limit of 100.
The documentation does not make it clear to me:
WHM allows you to specify the maximum number of emails that a particular domain can send per hour. This allows you to limit spam and better regulate bandwidth that domains on your server use.
So, either it is not counting total recipients OR there is a bug here. I do admit this server is on 11.44 LTS (due to a couple more months of FrontPage support)
- Scott