Until now there was no tool or script to generate this report.
At first you need domlist.exe to generate a daily report of your
smtp-logfile. (you can find it on the declude homepage)

I've created just now a short vbscript that parses the in_msgs value
from this report file.
The script counts also the files in the spam (or if you use spamreview:
spam/hold) -directory. 
Yes I know there should be a faster way to count this files, but in this
short time I wasn't able to find a description how to use the findfile
api. 

At last the script saves the results in a CSV-file.

I've created this script just now and have tested it only on my server.
So please consider it as alpha release and my little gift for christmas
;-)

Open the file with an editor an change the variables in the first
section to your needs. Then you can call the script:

        c:\your_directory\cscript spam_report.vbs

With the data in the csv-file you should be able to generate reports as
you want (excel, asp-pages, ...)

Probably there is something on this list who's able to code this in a
small and faster application.

Markus



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of 
> Douglas Hardison
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 5:26 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam Report
> 
> 
> Sorry I can't offer solutions to improve your detection rate. 
> But I am interested in how you prepared your graphs, if you 
> don't mind sharing.
> 
> dhardison
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Markus Gufler
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 6:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam Report
> 
> 
> If someone is interested in this:
> Based on tests we've added one per one in the last weeks we 
> can make some considerations and are also interested on 
> comments or corrections. In the following diagramm you can 
> see: in light orange the number of  total incoming msgs per 
> day on our server in dark orange the number of spams catched 
> be declude junkmail in blue the ratio between total-in and 
> catched msgs (due to non constant in-msgs values)
> 
> If I've interpreted all right I can consider:
> increase the default values for the tests in the declude.cfg 
> to 10% (or decrease the hold value from 20 to 18 points) As 
> you can see this simple change has increased the detections 
> imediatly on 23.October Use the two blacklist provided and 
> daily updated by Image'fx
> (www.imagefxonline.net/apps/delog)
> After the 20.Nov we've added this two tests and noticed a 
> striking increase of detected spams. Adding the 
> populardomains-test on 11.Dec we've noticed another 
> noticeable improvement but have had also one single false 
> positive from around 130 catched spams. So we've decreased 
> the weight to 30% of the hold value to avoid false positives. 
> Unfortunately also the detection rate decreased but was 
> furthermore good. (for more info see 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=declude_ju
nkmail_declude
_com&restrict=&exclude=&words=populardomains)
I think junkmail today is one of the best weapon against spam. Based on
them and adding this 3 very ressource friendly blacklists we was able to
increase the detection rate to (I mean) a very good value.

I'm interested in any corrections for this report or other
considerations to improve the detection rate.

Markus

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