01-Jan-2011

Maintenance
Though a new year – for which I wish my readers all the best – it’s also the beginning of a new month so I had the system save it’s logfiles. The job also collects the mail statistics for the previous month:
PMAS statistics for December
Total messages    :   5390 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :    545 =  10.1 o/o (Files: 31)
Relay attempts    :   3926 =  72.8 o/o (Files: 30)
Accepted by PMAS  :    919 =  17.0 o/o (Files: 31)
 Handled by explicit rule
        Rejected :    198 =  21.5 o/o (processed),   3.6 o/o (all)
        Accepted :    350 =  38.0 o/o (processed),   6.4 o/o (all)
 Handled by content
       Discarded :    109 =  11.8 o/o (processed),   2.0 o/o (all)
    Quarantained :    235 =  25.5 o/o (processed),   4.3 o/o (all)
       Delivered :     27 =   2.9 o/o (processed),    .5 o/o (all)

I still have to do the count of the relay attempts by hand:
05-Dec     19
06-Dec    288
07-Dec    813
09-Dec    120
12-Dec    203
13-Dec    202
19-Dec   1225
22-Dec    107
23-Dec    165
27-Dec    768

There may have been a few files less than 4 blocks in size but I consider these of less importance. Futher analysis will have to wait until a later date…
Apart from the usual activity, I consolidated all log files of last year in a single file to be stored on CD or DVD – mainly as a source for this analysis and as test data for the suite that I intend to create for it.
New disks for the workstation
I boaught two new 230Gb disks for the workstation: one internal, and one external – as a backup. Next month it will be filled with restored data – I hope.