Yes the problems never "go away".. they just go away from me :) And I do trust that a company managing an infrastructure of thousands of clients has an incentive to do a good job keeping spam at bay for monetary reasons as well as for bandwith/cpu conservation reasons. On Sep 18, 2012 2:04 PM, "Chris Knadle" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:00:49 AM Sean Dague wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Chris Knadle > > <[email protected]>wrote: <snip> > > > > > Here are some statistics for my server for Sept 15 - 16 (these > statistics > > > are sent daily, via a Perl script that comes with the version of Exim4 > in > > > Debian): > > > > > > mail rejection reasons by message count > > > --------------------------------------- > > > > > > Messages Mail rejection reason > > > 516 Rejected HELO/EHLO: syntactically invalid argument > > > 378 Listed at <DNSBL location 1> > > > 97 Msg rejected due to spam score > > > 22 Rejected EHLO: non-FQDN HELO greeting > > > 12 Rejected EHLO: raw IP address used in HELO/EHLO greeting > > > 10 Rejected RCPT: Unrouteable address > > > 7 Rejected EHLO: forged localhost > > > 4 No email address in To: field > > > 3 Listed at <DNSBL location 2> > > > 3 Rejected RCPT: Sender verify failed > > > > So, I think here is part of the difference. My average reject count was > > about 20,000 messages a day (strict filtering, greylisted, etc). Once the > > fire hose gets big enough, the statistics do not go in your favor. :) > > I used to have a much higher rejection count; that comes and goes. A > higher > message count wouldn't matter much. [BTW in my current setup there are > cases > where connections can get closed that are not counted in the statistics, > so I > don't actually know how many email sending attempts there were.] > > > The other problem was some legitimate businesses are misconfigured so I > was > > rejecting legit invoice and shipping confirmation emails. The false > > positives were really my personal down fall, because the moment you have > to > > start scanning your spam folder for real content, you've lost the battle. > > These problems don't simply go away when someone else hosts your mail -- > instead you're trusting that your host provider will deal with them better. > > I just realized: I don't have a "spam" folder. Since I didn't miss it, I > suppose that might mean I've gotten to the point where I don't need one, at > least for the moment -- for however long that lasts. > > -- > > -- Chris > > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development > Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art > Dec 5 - Sysadmin Panel >
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