Overview
WHM allows you to specify the maximum number of emails that each domain on your server can send per hour. This allows you to limit spam and better regulate bandwidth that the domains on your server use.
Set the default hourly limit for all domains
To set the default hourly email limit for all of your server’s domains, enter a value for the Max hourly emails per domain setting in the Mail section of WHM’s Tweak Settings interface (WHM >> Home >> Server Configuration >> Tweak Settings).
This value defines the default limit for all of the domains on your sever, except for domains for which you manually set a different limit.
- You cannot use the Max hourly emails per domain setting to disable email for an account or domain.
- The system only enforces email send limits on remote email deliveries.
Set an hourly limit for the domains of an account
To limit the number of emails per hour that an account’s domains can send, perform the following steps:
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Navigate to WHM’s Modify an Account interface (WHM >> Home >> Account Functions >> Modify an Account).
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Specify a value for the Hourly Email by Domain Relayed configuration setting.
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Click Save.
Set an hourly limit for an individual domain
If you wish for an individual domain to have a different hourly mail limit from the main domain, you can also configure a limit for each domain.
To set a limit for an individual domain, perform the following steps via the command line as the root user:
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With a text editor, open the
/var/cpanel/users/usernamefile, whereusernamerepresents the account that owns the domain. -
Add a line that contains the following text:
MAX_EMAIL_PER_HOUR- -
To that line, append the domain name, an equals sign (
=), and the number of email messages to allow the domain to send per hour. For example, if the domain name to set a limit of 500 emails for the domainexample.com, enter the following line:MAX_EMAIL_PER_HOUR-example.com=500 -
Save the changes to the
/var/cpanel/users/usernamefile. -
Run the
/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/updateuserdomainsscript. This script constructs the individual threshold files that Exim uses to determine whether the account has reached its maximum email limit.
MAX_EMAIL_PER_HOUR setting in the /etc/email_send_limits file to any domain without a specific entry in the /var/cpanel/users/username file. If the /etc/email_send_limits file does not exist, the system assigns the default value to the domain.
