02-Nov-2011

The usual maintenance
Now in time :).
There is nothing in particular to mention, just that the number of relay attempts has decreased to a minimum, there hasn’t been a logfile over 4 blocks in size – there were just a few that exceed zero blocks.
PMAS statistics for October
Total messages    :   1001 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :    295 =  29.4 o/o (Files: 31)
Relay attempts    :     13 =   1.2 o/o (Files: 24)
Accepted by PMAS  :    693 =  69.2 o/o (Files: 31)
 Handled by explicit rule
        Rejected :    128 =  18.4 o/o (processed),  12.7 o/o (all)
        Accepted :    176 =  25.3 o/o (processed),  17.5 o/o (all)
 Handled by content
       Discarded :    104 =  15.0 o/o (processed),  10.3 o/o (all)
    Quarantained :    197 =  28.4 o/o (processed),  19.6 o/o (all)
       Delivered :     88 =  12.6 o/o (processed),   8.7 o/o (all)

It might be worthwhile to have a closer look over past months – but the internal statistics show the same level of decrease.
The only thing that is annoying at the moment are the bogus users created on the VMSwiki that create spam entries. There may be one of two at some days, requiering me to take action: disable all notifications, shut down the account permanently, and removeing spam. It takes just a few minutes, so it’s not a big issue – at least, for now.
What’s more: JeanFrançois Piéronne has released Pothon 2.7.2 on VMS, including MoinMoin 1.9. It’s time to update! Same applies to PHP – Mark Berryman has done 5.3, and WordPress should be upgraded as well….but that requires a re-thinking of the mapping…I’ve neem busy with that – but seem to have lost the workinmg example and so I;ll have to redo it all. What a luck I’m using WASD, because of the Watch utility!