definition: messages per month?

Fri Sep 10 09:21:39 IST 2004

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MailScanner-MRTG counts both the number of
messages and the number of recipients, however the virus ratio/ spam ratios are
calculated again the message numbers (unless you tell the configuration that
your MTA is splitting messages into an individual message for each recipient).&nbsp;
My logic here was that having one recipient or ten recipients doesn&#8217;t
really make a difference to the amount of work MailScanner has to do, it still
only unpacks one message. <o:p></o:p>

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From: Fractal IT Dept. [mailto:itdept at FRACTALWEB.COM] 
Sent: 09 September 2004 22:29 
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
Subject: definition: messages per
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Hi
everyone, 
 
It occurred to me that we may be using different definitions of the word
&quot;messages&quot; when referring to the number of messages our servers
process per month. 
 
I generally think of a single message as a single email, regardless of the number
of &quot;to&quot;, &quot;cc&quot;, or &quot;bcc&quot; recipients. But perhaps
if a message has 10 recipients, it should be classed as 10 messages? This
becomes particularly significant as one compares weekly and monthly volumes. 
 
For example, my server processed 4,980 total (in and out) &quot;messages&quot;
(first definition), but there were really 24,266 &quot;messages&quot;
processed, once one takes into account messages with multiple recipients. 
 
With this taken into account, where we were once thinking that by comparison's
sake, our server only processed about 115k messages per month, the real number
may be more like 575k. 
 
So, in the first case, I suppose I should be talking about &quot;message
envelopes&quot;? Or am I off base? 
 
What are other people's thoughts on this? 
 
Cheers, 
Chris 
 
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