Yeah, we drop emails that aren't addressed to a valid account right off
the bat. The rest is all deliverable.
Thanks for the help!
Jason
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Jason Granat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
How much of that spam is deliverable (that is, RCPT'd to an existing
address?) I found that when I started rejecting invalid email addresses at
the RCPT stage my spam percentage went WAY down (from about 75% to about
40%). What happens is about half of the incoming spam is to a nonexistent
email address. Rejecting it before the DATA phase saves bandwidth too.
