Filter Incoming Emails by Domain & Country new WHM Email Feature

luiavag

• October 30, 2019 15:44

Hi, Can someone confirm if the new features in WHM (Filter Incoming Emails by Domain & Filter Incoming Emails by Country since release v84.0.5) when email is "rejected", either, email is received and a bounce is sent by the system and therefore email relay quota is used? or is the email simply "thrown away" and no relay quota is used? Before these new features, I currently use a custom spam filter in /etc/cpanel_exim_system_filter to thrown away all unwanted mail without using my email relay quota. Here is how I do it currently before any other filters are applied: if $header_from: contains "@qq.com" or $header_from: contains "@0038.com" etc, etc...... then seen finish endif

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  cPanelLauren

  • October 30, 2019 21:17

  Hello, I went over the bounce information on this here: Because these are bounces at SMTP time I don't believe that they would count against an account's relay quota.

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  luiavag

  • October 30, 2019 21:48

  Thanks for the quick replay, my mistake, you are right, the bounce doesn't count as relay quota, however the incoming mail does. Would you confirm if the method used in these new features will in any way affect the relay quota?

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  cPanelLauren

  • October 30, 2019 22:08

  By relay quota do you mean the number of failed or deferred messages a domain may send per hour? Incoming mail does not count for this at all.

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  luiavag

  • October 30, 2019 22:32

  By relay quota do you mean the number of failed or deferred messages a domain may send per hour? Incoming mail does not count for this at all.

  
  I mean my servers email relay quota overall. To clarify further, my WHM/Cpanel installation is in a Goddady VPS which uses their email relay server to send mail and has an outbound email limit of 5000 per day by default. The crazy part is that, before I applied my custom exim spam filter, my quota was being heavily used by the spam I got, that's why I suspect the bounced mail would count as relay quota "in my situation" with these new added features.

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  cPanelLauren

  • October 30, 2019 22:36

  Oh I see. To be honest I don't know the answer to that question. I would assume if the mail goes through their relay servers then yes it counts, but this is a question you'd need to ask them specifically.

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  luiavag

  • October 30, 2019 22:47

  Hello, I went over the bounce information on this here:

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