Re: Spam Statistics

[andy . jezierski]

Jason Granat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/05/2004 10:51:49 AM:

> Hello,
>
> I am under the gun to prove a point.  We have a spambox account that
> catches roughly 500-700 spams per day, company wide.  We have about 10
> highly active email users.  My boss thinks it's rediculous that so much
> spam is being sent to us.  Very little spam actually gets to the users.  
> He's upset that spam comes in at all.  He thinks it's just our
> organization that receives all this spam.  What I would like to have is
> some typical statistics to show him that it's not just our orginization
> that receives spam.  Are there any resources out there to look this up?  
> Would any of you be willing to divulge your spam statistics?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>

First off, I don't have spamassassin installed companywide yet, just about 40-50 users helping test it. These stats are from our inbound server that either sends the message on to spamassassin for the test users or on to Notes for everyone else. So they're only RBL and blacklist stats, don't really have any spamassassin stats yet, except to say that it stops almost all of it.

Overall since mid November we've outright rejected over 575,000 messages, we average about 50,000 rejections per week. I'd say we average 60% spam.

viper# mailstats
Statistics from Tue Mar  2 14:00:08 2004
 M   msgsfr  bytes_from   msgsto    bytes_to  msgsrej msgsdis  Mailer
 3      733      31360K      140       1011K       48       0  local
 5    21261     816977K    21960     787959K    25370       0  esmtp
=============================================================
 T    21994     848337K    22100     788970K    25418       0
 C    50659                22582                25418

Since midnight today:

Blocked by access.db:
Bad Local User: 160
bad domain: 202 / no domain: 0
Blacklisted: 1344
Blacklisted: 0
Dialup - visi.com: 0
Dialup - dynablock: 0
Dialup - SORBS: 1322
Open Proxy - Blitzed: 82
Open Proxy - SORBS http: 536
Open Proxy - SORBS socks: 138
Open Proxy - Compromized 0
access denied: 0
spamhaus: 510
ordb.org: 13
SORBS Misc: 2
failed ip name lookup: 6 / possible forged ip: 0
SORBS All: 1998
reject 451: 4
reject 550: 1531
reject 553: 2794
total rejected: 4329
total delivered: 2433
viper#


Andy