I just upgraded the spam filter I use, ASSP to its latest version. I love ASSP because it intercepts mail before it gets to my MTA (Postfix in my case. Also works for sendmail, Exchange, etc., etc.).

Just for fun, I had it report its progress. Here are the stats:

As of Sat Dec 27 14:41:31 2003 the mail logfile shows:
32141 proxy / smtp connections
0 were dropped for attempted relays (0.0% of total).

29452 messages, 15402 were spam (52.3%) in 173 days
for 170.2 messages per day or 89.0 spams per day
2239 additions to / verifications of the whitelist (12.9 per day)
8364 were judged spam by the bayesian filter (54.3% of spam)
6978 were to spam addresses (45.3% of spam)
60 were rejected for executable attachments (0.4% of spam)
677 were sent from local clients (4.8% of nonspam)
11738 were from whitelisted addresses (83.5% of nonspam)
0 messages were passed to SPAMLOVERs
1635 were ok after a bayesian check (11.6% of nonspam)
0 addresses are on the whitelist

0 hits on the blacklist
0 resulted in spam (0.0% of Bayesian spam, 0.0% of blacklist hits)
0 resulted in non-spam (0.000% of blacklist hits)

It shows that if it weren’t for ASSP, I’d be getting 90 spam messages per day. Thanks, ASSP!