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Identify spamming accounts cPanel/DirectAdmin Exim

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An webhost server admin knows the frustrations of spamming accounts, the trouble is putting together a toolkit to identify spamming accounts. I'll write a series of posts on how to mostly eliminate spam on cPanel/DirectAdmin servers. There are a couple of different ways

Locate spam scripts in Exim WHM

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From time to time you might find that some scripts have been compromised for a particular user's website (Wordpress, Joomla, etc). To identify the directory from where these scripts are spammming you can run the following command in the terminal: grep cwd /var/log/