[Design] [Question] Email addresses and SPAM

[Mike Taylor]

On Jul 21, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Morgen Sagen wrote:

>
> On Jul 19, 2006, at 10:59 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:
>> What are other people's experiences with email accounts and SPAM?
>
> Don't underestimate spammers!
>
> The sheer number of spam messages hitting my personal mail server 
> always astounds me.  I have to resort to 3 levels of filtering:
>
> 1) I have sendmail configured to reject connections from remote 
> machines on various blacklisted subnets.  In the past 4 weeks this has 
> filtered out 110628 messages (or 3951 per day)!
> 2) For the spam that has gotten through the first filter, spamassassin 
> has caught 1030 messages (36 per day)
> 3) For the messages that spamassassin has missed, Mail.app's junk 
> filter will correctly tag about 10 per day.
>
> After those three filters, I end up with around 10 uncaught spams per 
> day.

my public facing smtp server filters out ~5k for the 5 email addresses 
I have (only 2 are public) and for the 3 other people who use my mail 
server
my private smtp server, which rejects anything not coming from the 
public facing smtp server, rejects ~1k per day
spamassassin tags around 2k per day
mail.app puts into my Junk folder about 400 a day

but, as you can probably guess, my mail volume is no where normal as I 
get a *lot* of moderation and other system related emails

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