Bandwidth per email account

User2012

• March 04, 2014 18:37

Hi all, First post at these forums and I'm not very knowledgeable so apologies if my terminology is off :-) We have several accounts (domains) that we manage via cpanel. One of them usually uses bandwidth of circa 700MB p/m but at some months it goes up to almost 5GB(!). We can see the spike is happening at the emails of that domain but can't seem to find a way to drill down and find how much bandwidth each email used to find the offending accounts (who knows, it could be just 1-2 accounts causing this by sending spam or what not :-S ). If there a way to do this? Thank you! :-)

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 05, 2014 14:22

  Hello :) While there are no native tools that will give you the bandwidth per email account, you can find unsorted bandwidth data for POP3 in the following file: /var/log/maillog
  I suggest searching the above file for the domain name in question to determine if a specific email user is displaying more activity than others. EX: grep domain.com /var/log/maillog
  The following thread includes some commands to grep /var/log/maillog for specific domain names and email accounts that you might find helpful: POP3 Bandwidth Usage Thank you.

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