[sniffer] Re: How Many get through

[Jim Matuska Jr.]

We have our rules setup really strict and it usually works quite well for us running Mdaemon.  We probably half of the sniffer return codes automatically delete messages that match a single rule and the other half go to users personally spam folder accessible via the webmail interface (or imap).  The messages moved to users spam folders are deleted automatically after they have been there a week to keep the clutter down.  We actually have very few false positive doing this and most users don’t even check their spam folder on a regular basis as most emails in there are really spam.    I (and a lot of our users) probably see 2 or 3 spam messages max in a given day, mostly new ones that haven’t been coded yet in sniffer.  Looking at the log files it looks like we intercepted about 11,000 spam messages yesterday alone out of 13,000 total messages received for about 800 users.   Jim Matuska Jr. Computer Tech2, CCNA Nez Perce Tribe Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]   From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Stark Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 8:49 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] How Many get through   I have a question I've been wanting to ask for awhile:   How many spams do most people get leaked into their mailbox? ie they pass message sniffer?   When I first started over a year ago, very few spam made it into my mailbox.   But the past 6 months I get 60-80 spam emails / day into my personal box. Of course I'll see the same messages in my other mail boxes also, so it relates to a lot of deleting?   Could I have something set up incorrectly? Or thresholds set to low that they are getting through?   Thanks for any info!   Sincerely, Gary Stark