Maintenance
The mail issues of last week show up in the mail statistics of February:
PMAS statistics for February
Total messages : 2555 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 1080 = 42.2 o/o (Files: 3)
Relay attempts : 320 = 12.5 o/o (Files: 26)
Accepted by PMAS : 1155 = 45.2 o/o (Files: 27)
Handled by explicit rule
Rejected : 561 = 48.5 o/o (processed), 21.9 o/o (all)
Accepted : 229 = 19.8 o/o (processed), 8.9 o/o (all)
Handled by content
Discarded : 141 = 12.2 o/o (processed), 5.5 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 187 = 16.1 o/o (processed), 7.3 o/o (all)
Delivered : 37 = 3.2 o/o (processed), 1.4 o/o (all)
1080 blacklisted messages is way above normal, and the result of just a few days.
Except for a few days with a higher rate than usual in relay attempts, all seems fine.
I planned to do some updates last week but the mail issue was more important to be solved. For now, the filter does most of it’s job, except that DNS-Blacklisting is disabled, and I see it in the number of messages that are now either discarded or quarantined – a higher than usual, but not excessively.
According the author it may be caused by the blacklist server passing invalid information, but that doesn’t make sense, since it happens with any server that is first on the list. So it actually doesn’t matter which server is accessed: the access itself seems to mark the sender as blacklisted. And it happens after simply restarting PMAS…
So updates are – once again – postponed.