by Joel | 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 Joel | 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 Joel | 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...
by Joel | Aug 10, 2014 | Mail service, Plesk
In order to clear the Qmail queue, initiate the following commands from shell : # service qmail stop # find /var/qmail/queue/mess -type f -exec rm {} \; # find /var/qmail/queue/info -type f -exec rm {} \; # find /var/qmail/queue/local -type f -exec rm {} \; # find...
by Joel | Jul 26, 2014 | cPanel/WHM, Mail service
In order to change the exim interface IP, do the following : -SSH to your server and edit the file – /etc/mailips : This file controls the IP address from which each domains are allowed to send the mails. If the file is not present, create it. Open the file for...
by Joel | Jul 10, 2014 | Mail service, Servers
# /var/log/exim_paniclog : info abt the exim program itself. # /var/log/exim_mainlog : logs every single mail transaction. # /var/log/exim_rejectlog : This logs delivery rejections. # exim -bp : shows mails on the queue # exim -bpc :This option counts the number of...
