Max E-mails per e-mailaddress

[saden]

Thread: Max E-mails per e-mailaddress

Hello,

I'm a bit new to editing server files, so I might be a bit 'noobish' in questions and/or answering.
I got a VPS running with about 30 accounts. All the accounts have websites and e-mailaddresses running with the server. Now I got one account that has issue's, so much issues that it shows that it have send:

- Warning: 121147 emails have been sent yesterday by x
- Warning: 303582 emails have been sent yesterday by x
- Warning: 6181 emails have been sent yesterday by x

x = the user. Now this isn't even an e-mailaddress, but the 'root' user of that package/account. I suspect it has malware on the website; It's running an old Magento version.

Now I wanna make sure, this and every other user, can't send more e-mails then 200 per day. Because nobody of the current users, will send more then 200 per day.

I tried to google some, where I found the following:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=514

The thing is with this page. When I try to do step 2, that folder doesn't excist in my SSH cmd.
Now when I wonder, if I change this: max_per_email_send_limit=200 in the directadmin.conf file, does it lock the e-mailaddresses too, or is it just for the notificationsystem?
The thing is with this page. When I try to do step 2, that folder doesn't excist in my SSH cmd.
Now when I wonder, if I change this: max_per_email_send_limit=200 in the directadmin.conf file, does it lock the e-mailaddresses too, or is it just for the notificationsystem?

 

[1024kb]

Hi saden,

You actually can set the limit by creating a file /etc/virtual/limit_username

For example, if the account in question is named 'saden' and you want to limit them to 100 outgoing emails per day, just use the following command:

echo 100 > /etc/virtual/limit_saden

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

Users and email accounts over the limit will be disallowed to send emails through local mailserver (just make sure you've got the latest exim.conf and exim.pl).