[Yetanfou]

A dozen spam messages per day? Lucky you. I did a tally on yesterday's harvest on my server and found the following:

- 57 rejected messages designated as spam by SpamAssassin

- 137 greylisted messages, most of which will end up being spam as those addresses which I communicate with regularly will be in the whitelist.

- 181 connection attempts blocked at the gate due to protocol violations (most of them due to fake HELO, usually trying to connect using my own server's FQDN)

- 144 delivery attempts blocked at RCPT due to the use of blacklisted recipient addresses. This is why using recipient-specific sender addresses makes sense when communicating with commercial, organisational or governmental institutions: it makes it possible both to track down who leaked or sold addresses to spammers as well as to block those addresses entirely.

This domain has been handling mail for close to 23 years now, the server is used daily by about 8 people, it also forwards mail for a few others.

I generally don't see more than one or two spam messages per week in my actual INBOX.

[loup-vaillant]

Ah, 8 people. If we remove the protocol violations, we get (57 + 137 + 144) / 8 = 42 spam message per person per day. Between 3 and 4 times my amount. I may be lucky, but frankly that doesn't sound extraordinary.

I also get no more than 1-2 spam message per week in my inbox.