MPP Real World usage figures – some examples of spam volumes

admin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:28:45 +0000

We have been running the MPPD for a few years now to i thought it would be intersting to see the stats that the server is producing for our email filtering.

Date

Total

Clean

Virus

Spam

Error

WBL
matched

RBL
matched

11-19

24527

Clean 1996
(8.14%)

Virus 49
(0.20%)

Spam 2184
(8.90%)

0.00 (%)

0
(0.00%)

RBL 20298
(82.76%)

We sampled 1 days email (20 hrs) to see how it was performing – and the figures are amazing. Over 24000 emails hit our server, of which only 8% were legit! so over 22000 emails were junk – with the MPP filter blocking RBL (black list), Commtouch traced spam and ClamAV ID’d virus’ at the front door of our sendmail box. Some were rejected, some sent to SQL quarantine, and some passed through with no noticeable affect on the server boxes performance.Its incredible to think what end users would be getting in their mailbox each day if MPP wasnt there protecting the system.

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MPP Real World usage figures – some examples of spam volumes