Am 9 Dec 2024 11:59:50 -0500 schrieb John Levine via mailop <mailop@mailop.org>:
> It has been my impression that for many years about 90% of the mail a > system typically recieves is spam. Most of it is easy to filter so > the amount that gets into a user's mailbox is a lot less. I sure see > a lot of attempted deliveries on my small MTAs. > > I ask because I've ben looking at a paper that asserts that the number > is about 50% and has been for a long time, which just seems wrong. > > What sort of numbers to people here see? Are there any credible > published estimates? Way too many of the numbers I see are basically > someone says I set up a mailbox and counted mail messages for a week > and then multiplied by ten billion. I use sendmail's delay_checks feature which makes possible to distinguish between just connection attempts (that mostly don't issue a command) and delivery attempts. Since 1st Nov, I got 44 delivery attempts that were rejected because of dnsbl. Although, about 100 rejected relaying. Maybe I receive one spam mail per month. I receive ~ more than 60 mails per day, so the spam ratio is very low. Although my domain was registered in 2023 and I am the only user. I also place spam trap addresses at some places where I use my address. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
