02-Jul-2023

Once again: All t be same (almost)
During our holiday trip, the site became unresponsive for some reason and has been off-line for about 10 days. Nothing worked, the only thing on the LAN I could reach was the router. From there, all traffic was impossible. So the problem was either the router, a cable, or a switch in the attic. As it turned out, it indeed was a cable – from the switch to Diana, so NONE of the connected systems could be reached because DHCP nor DNS could be contacted. Once the connection was restored, all worked again. No restart of any system required….
That is why there are less email messages reported:

PMAS statistics for June
Total messages    :   1593 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :     42 =   2.6 o/o (Files: 14)
Relay attempts    :    129 =   8.0 o/o (Files: 21)
Accepted by PMAS  :   1422 =  89.2 o/o (Files: 21)
  Handled by explicit rule
         Rejected :    869 =  61.1 o/o (processed),  54.5 o/o (all)
         Accepted :    160 =  11.2 o/o (processed),  10.0 o/o (all)
  Handled by content
        Discarded :    194 =  13.6 o/o (processed),  12.1 o/o (all)
     Quarantained :    128 =   9.0 o/o (processed),   8.0 o/o (all)
        Delivered :     71 =   4.9 o/o (processed),   4.4 o/o (all)

It also means that quite a lot of sites that used to send spam, found the site was not responsive and it seems they ‘forgot’ my domain. Which, of course, is fine.

relay attempts are minimized as well, the only ones I found, except the test ones that come from tiscali.it (from different IP addresses, by the way) there were a few in the 21st. Using my email address to a outlook user, and non-existing users to two different hotmail.com recipients.

For the rest: nothing weird.