No surprises
No jokes either: The monthly maintenancejob revealed nothing special. Mail is fine as it is for months now:
PMAS statistics for March
Total messages : 5091 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 0 = .0 o/o (Files: 0)
Relay attempts : 3933 = 77.2 o/o (Files: 31)
Accepted by PMAS : 1158 = 22.7 o/o (Files: 31)
Handled by explicit rule
Rejected : 363 = 31.3 o/o (processed), 7.1 o/o (all)
Accepted : 226 = 19.5 o/o processed), 4.4 o/o (all)
Handled by content
Discarded : 177 = 15.2 o/o (processed), 3.4 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 193 = 16.6 o/o (processed), 3.7 o/o (all)
Delivered : 199 = 17.1 o/o (processed), 3.9 o/o (all)
though Chinamen keep trying to relay when it is not allowed:
ANTIRELAY.-2015-03-05 1450 between 21:25-23:59 (from sina.com)
ANTIRELAY.-2015-03-06 335 between 00:00-00:36 (from sina.com)
ANTIRELAY.-2015-03-15 1680 between 04:54-07:55 (from 163.com)
ANTIRELAY.-2015-03-17 115 between 09:00-10:44 (from 126.com)
Just one “user” nllxiaonanzi111620 from these domains. Probably all forged, sent by a script or program on a server in this domain. I blocked 163.com already but they may use other ranges as well that are not blocked…
To be investigated – if time permitted, but my jobs takes far too much time, even in evenings and weekends (if anyone has another job (preferably in the VMS arena, drop me a line. I’m willing to move)
I have some testing to do for eCube: their Eclipse plugin for programming on OpenVMS from a Intel system (Windows or Linux) but there hardly is any possibility, timewise…