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

thedesigntribe · 29-06-2005 8:56am #1

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)

steve-hosting36 · 29-06-2005 9:04am

Junk is about 70% of all email traffic these days

Webmonkey · 29-06-2005 9:06am

I thought i was bad. Thats bad man.

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

Serbian · 29-06-2005 9:16am

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.

mneylon · 29-06-2005 9:40am

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.

thedesigntribe · 29-06-2005 9:53am

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.

mneylon · 29-06-2005 10:19am

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

Serbian · 29-06-2005 11:45am

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.

thedesigntribe · 29-06-2005 2:25pm

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.

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

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