> -----Original Message----- > From: Jorey Bump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 6:09 PM > To: Joey > Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org > Subject: Re: Finally blocking some spam > > Joey wrote, at 10/13/2008 05:10 PM: > Make sure you count the hosts, not the number of packets that were > attempted. In many cases, each host is only trying to send one message. > Blocking can skew the numbers (but the ones you report are still rather > large). > [SNIP]
I forgot to mention that if I remove the firewall rules I do get supporting numbers in maillog with "connect from" lines, so the numbers are accurate. I have struggled with this for a long time.