Daily Email Limit per DirectAdmin User not working

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seachen

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i notice that user still can send a lot of email out even i set the limit at "Daily Email Limit per DirectAdmin User"

from Mail queue list, still got a lot of spam mail.
 
Check if the user dont have a custom limit in /etc/virtual/limit_USERNAME

Also, are you sure the queue is outgoing and not incoming messages?

Regards
 
From my tests it appears that the limit is testing against outgoing individual emails, but not per outgoing recipient, so if a spammer is sending to 200 recipients per email, and the limit is 100, a spammer (or compromised site) can send out 20,000 emails before the limit is reached.

Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but that's how it appears to work for me, upon testing.

Jeff
 
Yes, but please verify it yourself just to make sure I'm not misunderstanding something.

Thanks.

Jeff
 
We limit to 16 recipients per email, and for exim as it seems an email with 200 recipients is a single email with single Message ID (as far as I know).
 
Yes, the testing is done against outgoing individual emails, but not recipients, unless you're using Majordomo. As if you are using Majordomo then with 200 subscribers you'll get 200 outgoing individual emails.
 
The next time we have a problem I'll do some additional research as my recollection is that we saw multiple recipients counted as one email.

Jeff
 
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