Heavy increase in spam influx this week?

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Alex Broens
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:05 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Heavy increase in spam influx this week?
> 
> On 8/30/2007 10:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> > I notice that the "spammy" connects have at least doubled for the
> last
> > three days or so, on some servers they may even be five or tenfold of
> the
> > normal traffic. Do you see the same?
> >
> 
> +35% of RBLD'd connections.
> 
> [axb at msmx1 ~]# grep reject   /var/log/maillog | wc -l
> 1590123
> 
> not funny
> 
> Alex
> 

You're right about that!

I just checked a few of our larger ISP sites and do see that the BarricadeMX
sites rejection rate has been creeping up. We're now seeing 96-97% of all
mail being rejected at the MTA level for sites that were at 92-94% rejection
rates last week. 

But please note that these sites normally get hammered with spam and these
rates normally go up and down.

Steve   

Steve Swaney
steve at fsl.com
www.fsl.com