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!
If you aren’t getting them and so can’t veryify that they are, in fact, actually spam, how do you know you aren’t rejecting legitimate e-mail?