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How to clear or disable eximstats on cPanel

What is eximstats

Eximstats, on WHM/cPanel servers, is used to maintain statistics and information about email messages processed by Exim mail service.

If the data in it is not cleared often enough it can grow, and cause issues with disk space, or MySQL resource usage, as the size of the database can cause higher memory and disk consumption.

Disabling eximstats

If you do not have any need for Exim statistics, which are used for Mail Delivery Reports on  Home »Email »Mail Delivery Reports, gathering exim statistics can be disabled from WHM or command line.

In WHM it can be disabled by going to Home »Service Configuration »Service Manager, and unchecking the service, and then clicking on the Save button on the bottom.

This will stop the database from being populated with new data.

Eximstats in Service Manager
Service Manager

From command line, you can disable the database from being populated by running a following command:
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/tailwatchd --disable=Cpanel::TailWatch::Eximstats

Lowering Eximstats retention time

Database is periodically cleaned, and by default Exim stats are retained in database for 10 days, which can be changed in WHM by going to Home »Server Configuration »Tweak Settings and changing the “The interval, in days, to retain Exim stats in the database” setting on the “Stats and Logs” tab.

Setting can also be changed by altering the “exim_retention_days” value in “/var/cpanel/cpanel.config” file.

Empty eximstats database

Database can be cleared either by deleting from its four tables, defers, failures, sends and smtp, or by dropping the database completely, and creating a fresh one with empty tables from “/usr/local/cpanel/etc/eximstats_db.sql” file.

To delete all of the data from the tables following command can be used:

mysql -e "use eximstats;delete from defers;delete from failures;delete from sends;delete from smtp;delete from smtp;"

To drop the database and recreate it again, following commands can be used:

mysqladmin drop eximstats
mysqladmin create eximstats
mysql eximstats < /usr/local/cpanel/etc/eximstats_db.sql
References:

https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/problem-in-eximstats.363382/

https://confluence2.cpanel.net/display/ALD/Service+Manager#ServiceManager-tailwatchd(TailWatchDrivers)

https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/ALD/Tweak+Settings+-+Stats+and+Logs#TweakSettings-StatsandLogs-Theinterval,indays,toretainEximstatsinthedatabase

Reverse DNS does not match SMTP Banner

UPDATE: WHM/cPanel removed support for in version 11.50, so changes below are not valid for versions 11.50+

https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/ALD/11.50+Release+Notes#id-11.50ReleaseNotes-/etc/mail_reverse_dnsremoved

 

If you make an SMTP test on http://mxtoolbox.com you might be getting a following error shown in the test results “Reverse DNS does not match SMTP Banner”.

This error is showing because your SMTP greeting message is not matching the PTR records for the IP of the SMTP server used in test.

Following files need to be used and configured properly, for SMTP banner to match reverse DNS records.

/etc/mailhelo
/etc/mailips
/etc/mail_reverse_dns
/etc/exim.conf

Configure Exim to use mailhelo and mailips file

Go to WHM to Home »Service Configuration »Exim Configuration Manager and in Basic Editor on Domains and IPs tab set following settings:

Send mail from account’s dedicated IP address: OFF
Reference /etc/mailhelo for outgoing SMTP HELO: ON
Reference /etc/mailips for outgoing SMTP connections: ON

Configure necessary values in configuration files

Edit or create  /etc/mail_reverse_dns file and set the following in it for needed IPs.

x.x.x.x: rdns of the IP x.x.x.x
y.y.y.y: rdns of IP y.y.y.y

Edit or create /etc/mailhelo file and set following in it for the domains that you want to setup SMTP banner for.

example.com: reverse dns of the IP used for example.com domain
*: default SMTP HELO for unconfigured domains

Edit or create /etc/mailips file and set following in it:

example.com: x.x.x.x #x.x.x.x is the IP used for outgoing mail for domain example.com
*: y.y.y.y #y.y.y.y is the default IP that will be used for unconfigured domains

Configure exim.conf to use correct SMTP Banner

Following values need to be configured in exim.conf for SMTP Banner to be set to rDNS values set in /etc/mail_reverse_dns.

smtp_active_hostname
message_id_header_domain
smtp_banner

Be default only smtp_banner is set on cPanel servers, and it has a different value then needed.

root@server1 [~]# egrep "smtp_active_hostname|message_id_header_domain|smtp_banner" /etc/exim.conf
smtp_banner = "${primary_hostname} ESMTP Exim ${version_number} \

smtp_banner will probably look like this on your cPanel server.

"${primary_hostname} ESMTP Exim ${version_number}  \#${compile_number} ${tod_full} \n   We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited, \n   and/or bulk e-mail."
Configure values in exim.conf over shell

Locate the line smtp_banner and change its value so it looks like following:

smtp_banner = "${smtp_active_hostname} ESMTP Exim ${version_number} \"

Add smtp_active_hostname line value to exim.conf to look line following:

smtp_active_hostname = ${lookup{$interface_address}lsearch{/etc/mail_reverse_dns}{$value}{$primary_hostname}}

Add message_id_header_domain line to exim.conf to look like following:

message_id_header_domain = $smtp_active_hostname

In the end related values in exim.conf should look like this:

root@server1 [~]# egrep "smtp_active_hostname|message_id_header_domain|smtp_banner" /etc/exim.conf
smtp_banner = "${smtp_active_hostname} ESMTP Exim ${version_number} \"
smtp_active_hostname = ${lookup{$interface_address}lsearch{/etc/mail_reverse_dns}{$value}{$primary_hostname}}
message_id_header_domain = $smtp_active_hostname

Restart exim with /scripts/restartsrv_exim and SMTP tests should now pass without the SMTP banner warning.

Configure values in exim.conf over WHM

In your WHM go to Home »Service Configuration »Exim Configuration Manager and go to Advanced Editor.

Search for the smtp_banner field and change default value to:

"${smtp_active_hostname} ESMTP Exim ${version_number} \"

 

Edit smtp_banner in WHM
Edit smtp_banner in WHM

Find the “Add additional configuration setting” button and add two new configuration settings smtp_active_hostname and message_id_header_domain.

additional configuration settings
Add additional configuration setting in WHM

For smtp_active_hostname set the following value:

${lookup{$interface_address}lsearch{/etc/mail_reverse_dns}{$value}{$primary_hostname}}

For message_id_header_domain set the following value:

$smtp_active_hostname

References:

https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/easy-fix-your-smtp-banner-smtp-greeting-and-reverse-dns-for-dedicated-ips.391311/

https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/exim-banner-mail-headers-and-resellers-with-own-ip.100697/