A lot less spam
No surprises in the monthly maintenance job, just that the number of (spam) messages that pass the filter has dropped dramatically:
PMAS statistics for October
Total messages : 3738 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 0 = .0 o/o (Files: 0)
Relay attempts : 49 = 1.3 o/o (Files: 25)
Accepted by PMAS : 3689 = 98.6 o/o (Files: 31)
Handled by explicit rule
Rejected : 2555 = 69.2 o/o (processed), 68.3 o/o (all)
Accepted : 158 = 4.2 o/o (processed), 4.2 o/o (all)
Handled by content
Discarded : 296 = 8.0 o/o (processed), 7.9 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 376 = 10.1 o/o (processed), 10.0 o/o (all)
Delivered : 304 = 8.2 o/o (processed), 8.1 o/o (all)
What I also noticed is that some of the servers from where these messages were sent, have likely been hacked, or abused. At some point, these servers were no longer in the list (not even in the PMAS logs) so I think these have been recovered; of some have been taken off-line. Another thing: the number of messages increases in the weekend, during the week the number of messages is (somewhat) lower.
No relay attempts – except on 10-Oct-2022; 10 from 115.223.19.84, sent from (bogus?) account test@freedominter.net, sent to garymanages@gmail.com, and 3 from 185.28.39.4, stating to be me (so must have been forged) end sent to jacksb841@gmail.com.