MailPoet spamming the site running it

  • Resolved PaulaO

    (@holyroller)


    4 years ago

    So after a long set of troubleshooting, my web host (DreamHost) determined part/most of the problem is the following:

    looked up the IP that is hitting your site the most and it turns out to
    be your server’s IP (localhost):

    host paulaoffutt.com
    paulaoffutt.com has address

    I queried the access.log agains the IP and saw several of these entries:

    [removed IP] – – [10/Nov/2020:00:30:49 -0800] “POST
    /?mailpoet_router&endpoint=cron_daemon&action=run&data=eyJ0b2tlbiI6IjFocjJlIn0
    HTTP/1.1” 200 4032
    “https://www.paulaoffutt.com/?mailpoet_router&endpoint=cron_daemon&action=run&data=eyJ0b2tlbiI6IjFocjJlIn0”
    “MailPoet Cron”

    What is going on here and how do I fix it? We’re talking 33,374 hits in one day.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter PaulaO

    (@holyroller)

    So no answers? This isn’t good.

    Hi @holyroller,

    This is the task scheduler (cron) URL, responsible for making sure that all the batches of emails in the queue get sent one after the other. To work properly, the newsletter task scheduler needs to be triggered by an event to run continuously, that’s why you’re seeing so many entries for this on the access.log.

    You can change the cron options by going to MailPoet’s Settings > Advanced tab.

    If you believe this is causing issues with high CPU usage on your server, we recommend selecting the “Server side cron (Linux cron)” option.

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