i've been following the latest discussion of the most efficient RBLs to add and IPs to blacklist, and wonder how you guys are coming up with your numbers of spams blocked per RBL.
i wrote a little shell script to parse the postfix logs and count up some things, although there are some grep log-analyser tools out there. pflogsumm is one very good one, there are others.
i assume you're doing some kind of grep on the logs that sims produces, but is there a particular methodology you're using?
I would open the log via the web page and search for "blacklist", then copy and paste that into a terminal and pipe it through wc -l
% wc -l SIMSFILE <total blacklisted mail> % grep sbl SIMSFILE | wc -l <total sbl blocks>
etc...
i guess i could just run them all through bbedit's search function and count the hits on "spam" or "blocked", or something like that... if there were, say, an applescript someone was using...
In my experience unless you are on OS X Applescripts text processing is too slow to make this reasonable unless it's setup to run automated. And if you already have OS X.... well, grep!
i ask because i'm curious to see how effective my settings are from month to month, and i'd like to add something to my monthly stats emails that i send to my clients - currently things like number of visits to their websites, bandwidth used, etc - to say "this month, you would have gotten an additional X emails, had i not enabled spam blocking on the email server"
That might be a worthwhile script to write...
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