Outgoing Mail Limit - How is it counted?

[minorum]

I've got a simple question. How is the Number of outgoing Mails counted by mails or by recipients?

With a limit of 25 mails per hour is it possible to send 25 mails with 200 recipients each before they will be blocked or will one mail with more the 25 recipients exceed the limit?

greetings

markus

 

[IgorG]

Administrators can prevent outgoing spam by using limits on the number of outgoing email messages per hour.
More details of limitation of protection you can find in Administrator's Guide here - http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PP12/12.0/Doc/en-US/online/plesk-administrator-guide/71349.htm
and here - http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PP12/12.0/Doc/en-US/online/plesk-administrator-guide/73369.htm

 

[minorum]

I have read the above article before posting my question. But the manual ony speaks of email messages per hour.
My question still is: "is one email message send to 200 recipients counted as one message per hour or as twohundred

 

[IgorG]

My question still is: "is one email message send to 200 recipients counted as one message per hour or as twohundred

It will be counted as 200 emails.

 

[madadam]

How are the messages counted? I have an issue (Plesk 12.5 on Linux / CentOS 6 with Postfix) where some outgoing mail (which happened to be from a spammer!) was not counted. The domain showed 0 outgoing mails in stats, but the maillog has the following (small extract):

Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtpd[9318]: 546FA22C10: client=unknown[89.22.130.102], sasl_method=PLAIN, sasl_username=<user>@<domain>.com
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/cleanup[3516]: 0633F22A43: message-id=<83878B616CB01B857114FDF470B12BAE@mail.<domain>.com>
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/qmgr[14757]: 0633F22A43: from=<juppschmitz1987@<domain>.com>, size=5748, nrcpt=20 (queue active)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp04qh2603b0u00146fd0k@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp04qh2603b4tt00qsei8h@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp04qh2603b8vn0082nm22@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp04qh2603bcve00kgd1ad@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp04qh2603bh2p01696ldi@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp04qh2603bkdj0022r31t@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp04qh2603bnm300t0um03@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp04qh2603brok01qb2giq@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp088pgj03b91100d0j8s8@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp088pgj03bnm101h19dp7@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp0a94fh03b0rj00llk4r0@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp0a94fh03b4uk011g0490@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp0a94fh03bcu900r8mlsb@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp0a94fh03bh0m01smn0lg@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp0a94fh03bkb501s9oido@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp0a94fh03brkn00uc6557@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp0a94fh03bvit016t6318@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp14273303b2nc01pou44t@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp14273303bas601s2t6j3@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/smtp[3552]: 0633F22A43: to=<info-emid0aa02tv0ilp14273303bt4r00nda3hf@news.groupon.de>, relay=mail.fagms.net[62.27.38.63]:25, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0.03/0.01, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 message received)
Feb 7 02:02:34 advic postfix/qmgr[14757]: 0633F22A43: removed
Feb 7 02:02:35 advic postfix/cleanup[2775]: 546FA22C10: message-id=<DCFEE386A2553F5FE740FFAD2EE6A8D9@mail.<domain>.com>

This is repeated for 1000's of messages yet not one appears in the outgoing stats!

Meanwhile, for other domains I do see outgoing messages tracked normally.

Why are the above messages on a particular domain not counted correctly?]

Are there any logs for Outgoing Mail Control to track what it is doing?