> From: Sam Darwin
> there is at least one report here (
> http://forums.cpanel.net/f34/outbound-mail-throttling-213861.html#post1076581
> which says that Lena's solution doesn't work , and that messages are
> "dumped".
I (as an user) switched from an usual web-hosting with cPanel to VPS
because my previous web-hosting confessed that they delete all messages in
Exim queue daily with an explanation that else the machine's load average
becomes too high (I think because of repeated attemtps to deliver spam from
compromised or malicious users to non-existent recipients or to
MX servers which blacklisted the cPanel machine).
Exim runs on the same machine as Apache, CGI scripts and cPanel daemons.
Web-hostings try to cram as many users into each machine as they can,
and tend to not spend efforts to weed out spamming or compromised users.
Apparently, deleting all messages in Exim queue is
usual routine for web-hosting admins who use cPanel.
Perhaps one of many cPanel scripts does that among other things.
An admin may even not realise that that script does that.
