off topic - Email Statistics

[Scott Silva]

on 3-4-2008 12:56 PM Peter Farrow spake the following:
> Stephen Swaney wrote:
>>  
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Tim Sailer
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:19 AM
>>> To: MailScanner discussion
>>> Subject: Re: Email Statistics
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:17:37AM +0100, Ronny T. Lampert wrote:
>>>    
>>>>>> I have been looking at my stats,  I was curious what other people
>>>>>>           
>>> get
>>>    
>>>>>> Current doing about 100,000 emails a month with a 77% Spam hit.
>>>>>>           
>>>> Those are my numbers from the last 24 hours.
>>>>
>>>> We're doing a least
>>>>
>>>> 100,000+ mails per day
>>>> 48,000+ blocked per day
>>>> 310 "is spam" from MailScanner/SpamAssassin per day
>>>>       
>>> Ugh. So far today from *one* of my two mail systems (the least busy):
>>>
>>> Msgs handled successfully    25,839          Messages rejected
>>>     266,311          Rejection rate    91.16%
>>>
>>> Of the 25k not outright rejected, only about 11% are non-spam.
>>>
>>> This is at 09:00 today.
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>     
>>
>> I just had to throw these current stats in. This is a client's system 
>> that
>> has been under a denial of service attack (Joe Job) for the last six 
>> months:
>>
>> Statistic                    mailscan2
>> Delivery Attempts                15,141,706
>> Accepted messages                119,224
>> % Accepted messages            0.79%
>> Messages rejected by BarricadeMX    15,022,482
>> % Messages rejected by BarricadeMX    99.21%
>> Connections per second            36.58
>> Connections per hour            131,672
>> Connections per day            3,160,138
>> Max  Simultaneous Connections        802
>> Load Average                less than 2.0
>> Process Age (seconds)            413,983
>> Process Age (days)            4.79
>>
>> Their system is a single CPU / Dual Core Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz 
>> w/ 2
>> GB of memory handling 3,160,138 connection attempts a day. BarricadeMX is
>> running in front of our custom version of MailScanner. They don't even
>> notice the attack any more Please contact me off list if you ever have a
>> DDOS problem. We have a very quick to install solution.
>> Steve
>>
>> Steve Swaney
>> steve at fsl.com
>> www.fsl.com
>>
>>   
> I didn't know that adverts were allowed on the Mailing list.
> 
> This is basically spam in itself.
> 
> 
I do believe that FSL is one of the paying jobs that makes this list and 
MailScanner possible.
And since Julian is an officer (CTO), I don't think it is that bad. It is 
infinitely better than the "male member enlarging" stuff hitting the 
egroupware list daily.

-- 
MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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