off topic - Email Statistics

[Stephen Swaney]

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3-4-2008 10:01 AM Stephen Swaney spake the following:
>>
>>> -----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
>>
> Now you're just showing off!!  ;-P
>
>
True. We are very happy with the performance but I was trying to make a 
serious point.

If anybody on this list starts getting  an email based Denial of Service 
attack we can help them quickly configure just about any decent single 
CPU system to handle the attack in a way that will keep real email for 
the domain flowing. The whole process takes about an hour including the 
download of the ISO and the configuration. Just contact support at fsl.com.

And the price for this assistance for MailScanner users is $0.

Best regards,

Steve

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