On Dec 17, 2007, at 2:36 AM, Jorn Argelo wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:20:50 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
On 14:48:35 Dec 15, Jorn Argelo wrote:
Greylisting only works so-so nowadays. There was a couple of
months it
was
very effective, but that is long gone. Spammers aren't stupid, and
they
follow the development of anti-spam techniques as much as e-mail
admins
do.
Greylisting is a start, but from my experience it is not nearly
enough.
I have heard this said elsewhere too.
Yes don't rely solely on greylisting unless you're a lucky guy and
don't get a lot of spam.
I hear a lot of people saying that greylisting doesn't work, when I
have actual numbers for my network proving it does. These numbers are
from the first week of May 2007 to today:
Greylisted/Rejected Messages: 187560
Spam Tagged Messages: 3806
Virus Tagged Messages: 0
Bounced Messages: 7
Total Messages Sent: 761
Total Messages Delivered: 25345
So, out of 25,345 messages that have been delivered to mailboxes,
3,806 of them were tagged as Spam by Spamassassin. Guessing at false
positives based on what I see in my inbox (I'm the heaviest mail user
on my network), about 10% are probably false positives.
25345/187560 = .1351 = 13.51% of email gets past greylisting.
((3806*.90)/25345) = .1351 = 13.51% of that email is considered Spam,
which is probably correct.
Based on those numbers, 162,215 messages were probably Spam. I'm
guess it's Spam, as none of our users have complained that there is
legitimate email failing to get through to their inbox. That would be
~88.8% of email hitting my systems is Spam.
I would consider greylisting in my case VERY successful. What this
doesn't take into consideration, however, is that I truly hate the
delay of receiving a message from someone that isn't in the database,
and as such, we're working on improving our SA rulesets and getting
rid of greylisting.
If my math is wrong here, please feel free to correct me, I'm by no
means any good at it. ;)
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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks
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