Overview
This interface displays reports about email message delivery attempts from your account and allows you to trace message delivery routes. You can also use this feature to trace an message's delivery route, which can help you to identify message delivery issues.
Search for the status of an email address's message delivery attempts
By default, this interface lists the 250 most recent message delivery failures to and from your cPanel account's mailboxes.
To view the status of message delivery attempts, perform the following steps:
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Enter a recipient email address in the Search text box.
- To display all of the account's messages, do not enter an address in the Search text box.
- Click Show All to refresh the results in the Delivery Report table and the Email Server Trace diagram.
- To display only the delivery failures, click Show Blocked & Failed.
The Delivery Report table
Warning:
You must enable the Eximstats option in WHM's Service Manager interface (WHM >> Home >> Service Configuration >> Service Manager)for the Delivery Report table to display messages. The Delivery Report table only displays messages for which the eximstats database stores data.
The system sorts your query's results into the following columns:
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Column
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Description
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|---|---|
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Event
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An icon that indicates the message's delivery status:
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| User | The sender's cPanel username. |
| Sender | The email address on your system that sent the message. |
| Sent Time | The date and time when the user sent the message. |
| Spam Score | The message's Apache SpamAssassin™ score. |
| Recipient | The email address to which the user sent the message. |
| ID | The outgoing message's unique identifier. |
| Result | A message that describes the delivery results. |
| Actions |
Click the information icon ( |
The system retains this data for the amount of days that you specify for the The interval, in days, to retain Exim stats in the database (Minimum: 1; Maximum: 365,000) option in the Stats and Logs section of WHM's Tweak Settings interface (WHM >> Home >> Server Configurations >> Tweak Settings).
Table Options
Record selection
To filter the records by result, select any of the following checkboxes:
- Show Successes
- Show Deferred
- Show Failures
- Show In-Progress
You can also select the maximum number of results to display from the Max Results By Type menu.
Column selection
To select the columns that you wish to display or hide in the Delivery Report table, click the table options icon (
). A new window will display.
- To display information, select the checkbox.
- To hide information, deselect the checkbox.
From the Table Options window, select or deselect the checkboxes for the following column headers:
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Option
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Description
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|---|---|
| Select All | Selects all available options. |
| Event | An icon that indicates the message's delivery status. For more information, read the Events section. |
| User | The sender's cPanel username. |
| Domain | The sender's domain. |
| Sender | The email address on your system that sent the message. |
| Sent Time | The date and time when the user sent the message. |
| Sender Host | The sender's host's IP address. |
| Sender IP Address |
The sender's IP address. |
| Authentication | The sender's authentication type. |
| Spam Score | The email's Apache SpamAssassin™ score. |
| Recipient | The email address to which the user sent the message. |
| Delivery User | The username that owns the recipient's email address. |
| Delivery Domain | The recipient's domain. |
| Delivered To | The recipient's email address. |
| Router | The internal router that the mail server used to determine the message's destination. |
| Transport | The recipient's SMTP type. |
| Out Time | The date and time when the intended recipient received the message. |
| ID | The outgoing message's unique identifier. |
| Delivery Host | The recipient email exchanger's hostname. |
| Delivery IP Address |
The recipient email exchanger's IP address. |
| Size | The size of the outgoing message. |
| Result | A message that describes the delivery results. |
| Actions |
Click the information icon ( |
The Email Server Trace diagram
This diagram displays the sent email's delivery route from its source to its destination. Under the Legend heading, the following four icons display:
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Icon
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Description
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|---|---|
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The mail routing errors that your message encountered. |
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The filters through which the message passed. |
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The message's SMTP destination. |
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The local mailbox to which the system delivered the message. |
Each icon displays information about the message's delivery path.
