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Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Dills)
Thu Jun 19 13:10:43 2003

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:09:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
To: just me <matt@snark.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33L0.0306182055270.22348-100000@pants.snark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, just me wrote:

> For my little corner:
> http://mrtg.snark.net/spam/
>
> It seems >1:1 is the norm these days, at least at my scale.

How do you get your mail delivery attempts to occur so linearly? :)

I think something's busted with your mrtg script...

Here's the stats for one of the smtp boxes in our cluster (83% rejection
rate...and it's +/- 1% across the other boxes in the cluster):

Postfix log summaries for Jun 18

Grand Totals
------------
messages

 396087   received
 148369   delivered
      0   forwarded
    672   deferred  (9504  deferrals)
   1636   bounced
    718k  rejected (83%)
      0   reject warnings
      0   held
      0   discarded (0%)


Andy

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