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The system has detected an unusually large amount of outbound email.

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  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator
    Hey there! If you use the links in that message, do you see a large amount of messages being sent from the machine? If so, the first thing to check would be if these are coming from a legitimate account that has been compromised, or a script being used to send messages.
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  • Muneef
    I checked webmail i don't see any emails but i am guessing its running with script
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  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator
    We have some details that may help this situation in the following article:
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  • Muneef
    We have some details that may help this situation in the following article:
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  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator
    We don't usually make videos for those topics. I would just try running this command to see if it shows you anything useful: grep cwd /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep -v /var/spool | awk -F"cwd=" '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
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  • Muneef
    after run i got this message
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  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator
    Great - you'll want to investigate those WordPress plugin directories to see if they really should be sending that much mail.
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  • Muneef
    Great - you'll want to investigate those WordPress plugin directories to see if they really should be sending that much mail.

    Okay, I will check and let you know
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  • seobegood
    Hi, I got a simular problem on cPanel, i have made a lott of 'tests' but i am not able to fix it. So i would like to ask the community for help. i executed the code from cPRex; grep cwd /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep -v /var/spool | awk -F"cwd=" '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n See atached file, so my question is 2682 /etc/csf is the 'bad boy'? Thank you!
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  • seobegood
    Hi, I got a simular problem on cPanel, i have made a lott of 'tests' but i am not able to fix it. So i would like to ask the community for help. i executed the code from cPRex; grep cwd /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep -v /var/spool | awk -F"cwd=" '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n See atached file, so my question is 2682 /etc/csf is the 'bad boy'? Thank you!

    Update, I did an other command; awk '$3 ~ /^cwd/{print $3}' /var/log/exim_mainlog | sort | uniq -c | sed "s|^ *||g" | sort -nr Same results, but 1 more line; 4471 cwd=/var/spool/exim
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  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator
    @seobegood - Notifications from CSF are just that - the notifications from their product since the beginning of the mail log. I doubt that is related to your issue. The 4471 number is just a total of all emails that Exim has sent on your server since the log started. What you're looking for is a large number next to an individual cPanel account that would explain the behavior. Can you provide us with more details on exactly what is happening with your server?
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