by admin | Mar 27, 2015 | cPanel/WHM, Mail service
Basically, there are times when a particular domain in your server is involved in spamming or excessive mail delivery and you just want to block that domain alone from sending mails. With the current setup with cPanel, it is not straightforward to establish this. We...
by admin | Oct 23, 2014 | Mail service, Plesk
When trying to restart Qmail are you getting the failure message ? Check for the mailogs to see if you can spot something. If you are on a plesk server, you can find the logs at /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog Do you find an error like : ================== Date host...
by admin | Sep 15, 2014 | Mail service, Servers
We are observing a brute-force attack towards SMTP connections from different IP addresses with the same machine name – “ylmf-pc“ It could be many malware affected machines involved or an extended IP spoofing. If you have CSF configured properly, the IPs would be...
by admin | Aug 31, 2014 | Mail service, Plesk
This post will help you to track down spamming from a Plesk server, if its employed using PHP scripts in any of the domains. – Use this one to view the folders which have mail PHP scripts enabled and running. # vi /var/qmail/bin/sendmail-wrapper #!/bin/sh (echo...
by admin | Aug 31, 2014 | Mail service, Plesk
Finding the source of spamming in a server provisioned with Plesk is a tough job. Some of the useful commands which might help you are given down. Find the number of mails hung in the queue : # /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat To get an idea about the the message headers of...
by admin | Aug 21, 2014 | cPanel/WHM, Mail service
The eximstats database might tend to grow in size if there is high amount of mailing from your server. Check if the following value from WHM is set to a higher interval : Home »Server Configuration »Tweak Settings >> “The interval, in days, to retain Exim...
