Which emails are counted in /etc/virtual/usage/*

[PNVGroup]

Hi!

I have a quick question (I couldn't find a satisfactory answer elsewhere). Are only emails that are NOT local counted in files located in /etc/virtual/usage/username and /etc/virtual/usage/username.bytes?

Thanks

 

[chatwizrd]

The files in /home/user/imap are

 

[smtalk]

A quote from http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1173:

It will report on the top sender, top "auth" username, top sending IP, and top path used.
Note, the path can be useful, but can also be misleading.
This is because any email sent over smtp will use exim's current working path, which could be /root, /var/spool/exim, etc... it's where ever the process's "current working path" is.
However, the path can also be very helpful in the case that you've got a rogue php/perl script sending emails from a client's account. In that case, the path would be the path the script is in, which would help more quickly identify the problem.

 

[PNVGroup]

It seems, that my question was not understood correctly (maybe it's me, who does not understand the answers given).

We have the latest exim.conf and exim.pl. At the moment, we only want to count and limit users from sending too many emails with a general limit for the whole machine, which is defined in /etc/virtual/limit, nothing more. Furthermore, assume, that our machine is well enough protected, that rouge php/perl scripts are not running on it and therefore are not of interest.

So, we have a domain "pnv.si" (on account "account1"), which has DNS records hosted on the machine itself. The same goes for handling of emails (they are handled on the same machine that we want to enforce the limit on). If I send an email from [email protected] to [email protected] from an email client program running on a remote machine (for example, my workstation in the office) it does not show it in /etc/virtual/usage/account1.bytes and the counter in /etc/virtual/usage/account1 is not incremented. The connection to our mail server requires SSL connection and SMTP authentication.

If I send an email from [email protected] from the same client mail program with the same connection parameters to a user on a domain that does not have emails hosted on the machine in question (for example to someone with an email address [email protected]), than that is logged as expected in /etc/virtual/usage/account1.bytes and the counter in /etc/virtual/usage/account1 is incremented by one.

This behavior seem logical to me, I just want someone to confirm, that this is the correct (or incorrect) way that limits and counting of emails are done.

 

[nobaloney]

The email you're sending to a user on your own server isn't counted because it's not outgoing email; your server sees it as outgoing email. It only counts as outgoing those emails which are relayed (sent to another server).

Jeff