Warning: ### emails have been sent yesterday by username

[myilmaz]

I find one other interesting detail in the Mail Queue:

Received: from [197.242.118.48] (helo=User)
by server.*****.nl with esmtpa (Exim 4.80.1)

Seems that i'm close to find it

 

[nobaloney]

"crash" may not be the correct word.

John, that quote was from me in a thread I contributed to within the past few days. And yes, it did happen. The client was using a version of exim.pl which simply blocked resolution, so lots of emails ended up in the spool. Tens of thousands, because the client wasn't properly managing the server.

And yes, the server crashed because it used one partition, and it filled up. Perhaps I shouldn't have been as dramatic, but it did happen.

I didn't know the most recent exim.pl solves the problem. I like that . Thanks.

Jeff

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Ah, yes, if the drive fills right up, that would do it. That's a lot of email.

As for the given issue, make sure the /etc/exim.pl is up to date (version 15), so spam is blocked at smtp-time, preventing it from getting into the spool.
Also change the password for that authenticated account.

John

 

[myilmaz]

Thanks guys,

I have updated exim.pl to version 15 and i have seen that the most emails are been sending from remote smtp.

Can i set up a limit now of 200? Can that be resulting in a crash? And what can i do more? Thanks again