I have made any test with PHP x high volume sent with mail() and with direct STMP connection
I monitoring under WHM of my server the QUEUE (under mail queue manager)
With the first (mail()) I see only 20% in the queue, other is sent immediately
With the SMTP I see 100% on the queue and I must send manually (with delivery now) and sent is really slowly
Today my server started to go off-line and each time i restarted it went down within couple minutes. So i looked into it and found that i had over 7000 emails in Exim Mail Queue. All of them are spam. I deleted them through WHM and now everything seems good again but....
My question is how can i check what caused this problem? Has one of my domains been compromised with and sending out spam? What can i do?
i'm running a windows 2003 server to host a number of websites.
unfortunatly it looks like i didn't correctly protect the SMTP mail server
i checked the 'badmail' folder in the inetpub and found there were upwards of 250,000 bounced mails there... some spammers were obviously having a field day with my smtp server...
i've now changed the settings so that realys are only accepted from 127.0.0.1 and anonymous access is now disallowed.
my problem is that when i start up the SMTP server again spam is continuing to be sent out because the Queue folder is apparently full of junk waiting to go out...
i've tried entering this folder but the computer hangs, presumably because there are so many there...
i've tried deleting and renaming the folder but even with the smtp server turned off i get an 'Access Denied' error...
what can i do to flush or empty the queue folder ?
I getting this error when our clients are sending mail from outlook but they are able to send mail from webmail.
we are using exim mail server and whm . i can't understand where is problem , anybody can help me ?
Sending' reported error (0x800CCC6A) : 'Your
outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server has reported an internal error. If you
continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or
Internet service provider (ISP). The server responded: 451 Please try again
later.
I'm having some problems with my exim. The mail queue backs up constantly and now my server load is increasing like crazy when exim is running.
I ran this command tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog and the log has been listing for probably 15 minutes now and its still not done.
I recently purchased a VPS, to host all my domains and so I can start working on my sites. The problem is however that I have noticed that my provider does not allow individual smtp servers. Is this normal for a VPS? Is there a solution to the problem that I could suggest?
The problem is that the sender is added as host.myhostdomain.com and not smtp.mydomain.com, where mydomain.com is the domain that I want to create a website for and myhostdomain.com is the name of the server.
If the SMTP server is not the same as the domain name, then my email will land in all different junkmail folders, which is not really what I had in mind. It is no use trying to build up a user database if you cant communicate with them. How should I be able to sell services, if I cant send an e-mail to my customers?
I just dont know. I have to admit that I am a bit disappointed. It is not like I am paying a forture, but I am realistic. If one of them gets big I probably have to host them individually, but until I get more traffic this is a good solution.
My hosting provider runs Cpanel/WHM/Fantastico/XController, if that helps.
I have already tried to approach customer support about this issue, but the response was simply "With the PHP email issue, there really isn't a way to have it sent from some other address. It is technically coming from the hostname, so it will be labeled as such. In the php script, you can have it set to a different from
address, but the actual sender will be from the hostname."
Over the past week, the SMTP server on my VPS has been hanging whenever I try to send an email from my computer. It'll eventually work again, but now it's been down for the count for about 18 hours. Tech support keeps on recommending minor fxes and issuing standard responses like "try disanbling your firewall" and the like, but nothing works. I have already told them this:
* I know _you_ can probably send POP/SMTP mail through my server. I can't.
* Mozilla Thunderbird will connect and send mail through other
POP/SMTP servers.. Not my server here.
* I can connect to _receive_ email, but I can't send it.
* My ISP (SBC/AT&T ADSL) does not block outgoing mail to port 25 on my account; I had the block removed.
* I've got an exim server running on port 26, too. Doesn't make a difference.
* I tried connecting from another ISP (my work PC). Still can't send mail.
* I tried using IP addresses instead of my domain name. Doesn't work.
* I didn't change any account names, passwords or anything like that.
* I tried other email clients. Can't send mail with them, either.
* The exim queue has very few messages in it. Clearing the queue didn't work.
* I disabled firewalls. Didn't help. Besides, I was able to connect
to other mail servers - just not my VPS here.
* There are no typos in any of the account or general configuration settings in my client. Nothing changed. One day I could send mail, now I'm having problems.
I keep saying this, and keep attaching entried from exim_mainlog with error messages like this PROVING that I can't send mail:
2007-02-01 08:26:00 H=adsl*****
[*****]:1294 I=[*****]:25 incomplete transaction
(connection lost) from for
*****@gmail.com
2007-02-01 08:26:00 unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP
command from adsl*****
[*****]:1294 I=[*****]:25
2007-02-01 08:26:17 SMTP connection from [*****]:1344
I=[*****]:25 (TCP/IP connection count = 1)
2007-02-01 08:29:34 H=adsl*****
[*****]:1344 I=[*****]:25 incomplete transaction
(connection lost) from for
*****@gmail.com
2007-02-01 08:29:34 unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP
command from adsl*****
[*****]:1344 I=[*****]:25
Any ideas? I think tech support at my end has given up; it's been hours since I last heard from them, and that was just to say that they updated everything to the current version, and disable the firewall. (Again!) Didn't work.
So, before I pack my bags and find another VPS host, what should I do? Having outgoing SMTP email is a MUST; not having it is a deal-breaker.
Am using Windows 2003 server with IIS6.0 and SMTP.I tried to send mail using ASP.net C# code through SMTP service.But my mails are getting queued in C:InetpubmailrootQueue.
What could be the problem??I've done many trouble shooting steps but no luck.I changed the Relay settings.Since I am in a LAN connection, i've tested the relay setting using both the 'localhost'and 'MyDomainIP'but everything in vain.