Few words about Eximstats
Eximstats is a cPanel service, which is used to gather all kind of statistics for your incoming/outgoing email correspondence.
The initial idea of such service is very nice, but after some time there arise some problems:
- The eximstats database tends to grow enormously ( especially if you have high-volume mail traffic)
- If your MySQL goes down, so does your email service
- There is some serious performance penalty, while sending big amounts of emails
How to disable Eximstats
Eximstats is controlled by Tailwatchd, so you have the following choices:
- Disable Eximstats from WHM GUI
- Go to WHM
- Go to Service Manager
- Uncheck “Eximstats”
- Disable Eximstats from command line (CLI)
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/tailwatchd --disable=Cpanel::TailWatch::Eximstats
Finally you could truncate all current eximstats tables with the following command:
for table in defers failures sends smtp; do mysql -e "truncate table $table" eximstats; done