SIMS stats for 11/15/01 Total Emails: 45600
Total detected Spam (SPAM?): 752 1.6491% Spam Blocked by SIMS: 650 1.4254% The Spam blocked by SIMS is basically the automatic anti email harvesting feature. Spam Blocked by RBLs: 102 .2236% RBL servers: dialups.relays.osirusoft.com, spamhaus.relays.osirusoft.com Spam blocked by Spamtraps: 4 Small %. Spam that slips though the cracks: LOTS. Collateral damage: ZERO. Now, here comes the explanations, theories, and analysis. Spammers lurking in the crowd take note, and taylor your spam habits accordingly...... I think a large reason that SIMS catches so much spam is because I've got many "dead" ISP accounts. Old user names that were a customer, and now aren't. Maybe 1,000 or so accounts. Those trip the email harvesting feature, and it ends up blocking lots of spam. On the other hand, I suppose it could be mailing list induced bounces that generate auto-temp-bans, but any good list manager is going to remove the accounts that bounce anyway. Can the router be set up to make anything that's not an account (wild card) for a domain a spam trap? *@n-connect.net=spam trap <-----Too scared to try it on my production email server. If I did this, would it block it as spam, before it checked all the local accounts? If all my old customer accounts that are circulating around the internet's spam lists could become spam traps, I think SIMS would reject a lot more spam. And when it wasn't rejecting spam, it'd be bouncing email back to people who need to clean out their address book. Good idea? Bad idea? Thoughts? -Jerry ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
