--- On Tue, 5/22/12, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Over 90% of the messages so rejected are clearly spam > (i.e. sent to a spamtrap mailbox) or have other problems. > > That doesn't seem like a particularly strong metric to > me. What's your overall spam/non-spam ratio?
In 2012, 50% to date. My current count has 4 more spams than not. In 2011, 70% spam to 30% not. I no longer have statistics for 2010 or earler. I replaced my server with new hardware in February 2011. This counts only messages that make it to SpamAssassin scoring and are therefore accepted by the server. Messages rejected by the MTA for any reason do not get scored. For example, on some days, I have over 200 connections (separate addresses) rejected due to not having forward-confirmed reverse DNS entries on the incoming clients. Mail to unknown users won't be in the above counts, nor will SPF-failed messages (rejected directly at the "MAIL FROM" SMTP state), etc. Of course, messages with malformed Received headers are rejected by the MTA and not in the count either. I do not greylist, but I do have a fake high MX entry that always tempfails. I do not retain my mail rejection logs for longer than a week and delete them after I have reviewed them so I don't have precise counts to share. I do note that more than 90% of my current spam is such because it's addressed to my spamtraps directly. I've received only about 10 spams this year which have made it into my inbox, and those were messages which received sn SA score above my threshold but under 10. Most of the time, the score is under 4 for non-spam and over 20 for spam, with this year's spam highscore being 83 (and a fraction). _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
