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How can it get this bad (Spam) check these stats

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  • 29-06-2005 9:56am
    #1
    thedesigntribe
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭


    I have a spam filter setup for a client who last year was getting a lot of spam. I've been configuring of late and was astounded by the shear volume of spam received. Check the stats below!

    For your domain
    Messages Today - 8193
    Messages Last 7 Days - 129020
    Messages Last 30 Days - 232317
    Spam Today - 5591
    Spam Last 7 Days - 92815
    Spam Last 30 Days - 167587
    Viruses Today - 1759
    Viruses Last 7 Days - 18461
    Viruses Last 30 Days - 33773
    Bandwidth Today - 330Mb
    Bandwidth Last 7Days - 9303Mb
    Bandwidth Last 30Days - 19892Mb

    It's 10am in the morning and already there have been 5591 spam emails stopped today.

    My question is how can it have got this bad?

    (The people in question are tech savvy enough not to be submitting their email address everywhere)


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    steve-hosting36
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,161 ✭✭✭steve-hosting36


    Junk is about 70% of all email traffic these days :(


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    Webmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    I thought i was bad. Thats bad man.

    I have to admire your website too again. Its damn impressive. Good work


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    Serbian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,157 ✭✭✭Serbian


    Jesus, 20 gigs of Bandwidth a month on Spam filtering alone? That seems like an insane amount of spam. Are they hosted with Eircom? I find that eircom accounts seem to get a disproportionate amount of spam.


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    It sounds like they have catchalls enabled.
    Most of that junk would be dictionary attacks.
    If you fix the catchalls you'll go a long way to reducing the amount of junk.

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    thedesigntribe
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭thedesigntribe


    blacknight wrote:
    It sounds like they have catchalls enabled.
    Most of that junk would be dictionary attacks.
    If you fix the catchalls you'll go a long way to reducing the amount of junk.

    Wish is was the case. None email accounts is set to catchall.


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    Then it sounds like the spam filter is counting mails destined for invalid users.

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    Serbian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,157 ✭✭✭Serbian


    blacknight wrote:
    Then it sounds like the spam filter is counting mails destined for invalid users.

    Good points by Blacknight, it's a likely explanation alright.


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    thedesigntribe
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭thedesigntribe


    blacknight wrote:
    Then it sounds like the spam filter is counting mails destined for invalid users.

    That could be part of it.

    There is also a discrepancy in the totals.

    Messages Today - 8193

    Spam Today 5591
    Viruses Today +1759
    Total = 7350

    Which leaves 789 supposedly valid emails - at 10am this morning client had received less than 10 emails.


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