> Rick Klinge wrote: > > The percent shown for Non-Local Mail Blocked: I don't think is > > including the Denied SMTP Connections: count. I think it should > > because they would have been marked/filtered as spam. > > Those statistics are stored separately under the 'SMTP > Connections Statistics' section. Technically we have no way > of knowing how many possible messages would have been blocked > since mail servers can send multiple messages in a single > connection. Therefor including the denied connections in the > 'Non-Local Mail Blocked' stat is invalid since it would > produce an erroneous the result. > > Also whether they would have been marked as spam/ham is > purely dependent on the types of addresses you put in the > list. Personally some of the messages in mine might have been > marked as ham but it's not the sort of content my users > should be seeing in a business environment, myspace.com > emails for instance. > Good point Kevin - but; I believe that if I had no entries in the Denied SMTP Connections that my Non-Local Mail Blocked: would increase about 55%. So, I still believe that the over-all numbers, rather than omitting them, would be more 'realistic or accurate' by including the count of denied SMTP connections. Technically, you are right - but who in there right mind would block ' a lot - as in thousands ' of legitimate SMTP/MTA sources?
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