MailBaby SRS and Strict Forwarding Errors: Reliable Forwarders
Why forwarded mail is the most common source of MailBaby rejections on cPanel servers, how SRS rewrites the return path so SPF passes downstream, how to route forwards through a dedicated transport, and how to handle the backoff MailBaby applies to abusive forwarding.
September 29, 2026
MailBaby Newsletter Sending Limit: 6,000/Hour Without Spam Problems
Practical rules for hosting customers sending newsletters or mailing lists through a MailBaby relay: the per-address hourly cap, batching in Exim and list software, list hygiene, unsubscribe headers, content that scores badly and watching the relay log during a send.
September 29, 2026
MailBaby Plesk Webuzo Relay: Outbound Setup
How to send all outbound mail from a Plesk Obsidian server (Postfix or qmail) and a Webuzo server through relay.mailbaby.net with authentication, including the Plesk CLI and mail_smarthost settings, the Webuzo Exim override and verification.
September 29, 2026
MailBaby Feedback Loop and Abuse Reports: Avoid Suspensions
What happens when a recipient clicks "report spam" on mail sent through MailBaby, how the relay processes feedback-loop complaints and abuse reports against its IPs, how a complaint reaches you, and the response we follow to protect the account and the customer.
September 29, 2026
DirectAdmin Exim MailBaby Relay: Smarthost Setup
How to route all outbound mail from a DirectAdmin server through relay.mailbaby.net using the exim.authenticators.post.conf, exim.transports.pre.conf and exim.routers.pre.conf override files, with SRS for forwarders and a check_limits fix for DirectAdmin 1.702 and later.
September 29, 2026
MailBaby DKIM transport signing explained: why some mail shows “via mailbaby.net”
Explains what happens to DKIM when mail passes through relay.mailbaby.net, why unsigned messages pick up a transport signature and a via label in Gmail, how that affects DMARC alignment, and how to make your own signature the one recipients evaluate.
September 29, 2026
MailBaby Cloudflare DNS: 3 Records (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
Exact Cloudflare DNS records for a domain sending through MailBaby from a cPanel or DirectAdmin server: SPF with the spf-c include and server IP, the _mailbaby TXT, the panel DKIM key, a DMARC policy, and the mistakes that break them.
September 29, 2026
MailBaby Compromised Account Detection: 2026 Delisting Without Problems
How MailBaby detects a compromised mailbox or script on your server, what a block on a sender address looks like in the logs and portal, and the clean-up and delisting steps that restore sending and protect the rest of the account.
September 29, 2026
MailBaby cPanel Exim Setup: Reliable Router, SRS and DKIM
Step-by-step configuration of cPanel's Exim to relay all outbound mail through relay.mailbaby.net with LOGIN authentication, a manualroute router, an authenticated SMTP transport, SRS for forwarders and local DKIM signing that survives the relay.
September 29, 2026
MailBaby Classified as rSPAM: Fix Rejections Fast
What the rSPAM, unauthorised sender, rate-limit and strict-forwarding rejections from relay.mailbaby.net mean, how to read the score in the MailBaby log, and the fixes that get legitimate mail flowing again without loosening your filtering.
September 29, 2026
Exim 4.100 Security Fixes: Critical 2026 Changes for Hosting
A hosting administrator summary of the 2026 Exim security fixes (CVE-2026-40684 to 40687 and the .forward privilege escalation), the cPanel and DirectAdmin builds that carry them, what changed in 4.100, and how to confirm a server is patched.
September 29, 2026
Dovecot 2.4 Mail Login Failed: Fix Broken Logins on cPanel
After cPanel moved to Dovecot 2.4 with stronger mail password hashing, some mailboxes fail to authenticate or old clients cannot connect. This guide identifies the failing cases from the mail log and resolves them with password resets, protocol settings and client reconfiguration.
September 29, 2026