daily mail limit not working?

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tomadmiraal

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It looks like we have a problem with mail limits.

We have set daily mail limit:

Daily E-Mail limit per DirectAdmin User: 500
Daily limit per E-Mail Account: 500
User can set limit per E-Mail: no

How is it posible that we see the following amount in the bandwith overview page?

Email Deliveries (Sent)
2016 12 09: 8473 (8473)
2016 12 10: 6119 (6119)
2016 12 11: 431 (431) -- (account has been suspended this day)

in this case it was a hacked joomla website and the mail has been sent via PHP. the sent amounts are correct.

are the sent items by php not counted in the daily limit? or is DA not able to block mails sent by php?

our DA version on this machine is 1.50.1
 
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Also, check the /var/log/exim/mainlog to see how those emails were sent.
Eg, if they were using authentication or not (they'd have A=login:email@account if auth was used)

Related:
https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=455

If you don't need it, I'd recommend disabling da-popb4smtp with this guide:
https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=467
(do not shut off the running process, as DA also uses it for bytes logging, just clear the pophosts file as per the guide)

John
 
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