Domain domain.tld has exceeded the max emails per hour (124/100 (124%)) allowed. Message will be reattempted later

baroninn

• March 29, 2021 11:20

Hi, this has probably been answered millions of times. I have max_mail_per_hour=100 a user tried to send 200 emails today in one go.... ;-) he got a bunch of mailer-deamon messages return saying "Domain domain.tld has exceeded the max emails per hour (124/100 (124%)) allowed. Message will be reattempted later" my question is: will the message be reattempted later ? because when I look at the logs I see this: "Domain domain.tld has exceeded the max emails per hour (125/100 (125%)) allowed. Message discarded." so the notification to the user says = "message will be reattempted later" but the server says = "Message discarded" just wondering.... will the message be sent at later time, or has the message been discarded and will not be sent at all ? I have not seen the message go out again in the logs... so if the answer is no, the message will not be reattempted later, can I somehow create a queue or something so the mail server still sends out all messages, just waits until next hour ? or how is everyone managing this ? thank you.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • March 29, 2021 19:09

  Hey there! Up to 25% will be reattempted later, and higher than that will be discarded. These settings are found in WHM >> Tweak Settings under the "The percentage of email messages (above the account"s hourly maximum) to queue and retry for delivery. (Minimum: 100; Maximum: 10,000)" option, which defaults to 125%, which is what you're experiencing. After that, the messages are discarded, so the details you're seeing are correct. You can always increase that percentage if you'd like.

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  baroninn

  • March 30, 2021 09:39

  thanks Rex. Chuck says hi... ;-)

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • March 30, 2021 14:23

  You're welcome :D

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