Anti-SPAM/Anti-Virus Stats
The mail server in the Gartner Web Development office receives a very low volume of over all incoming emails but our SPAM, or Unsolicited Commercial/Bulk Email is about the same, proportionally, to much higher volume servers. The Open Source software used in this particular configuration is scalable to volumes much greater than these.
Unsolicited Commercial/Bulk Email, or SPAM (representing 2.52% of incoming email as of May 1, 2007) is removed with 95.47% accuracy. (Based on 22,303 incoming emails with 8,652 SPAM and 189 viruses and phishing scams blocked by Spamassassin and ClamAV - Open Source SPAM filtering and Anti Virus software - with only 4 verifiable false positives over a 7 month period.) Undesirable email can then be held on the server or tagged as SPAM to be placed into your “Junk e-mail” box within your favorite e-mail client, (Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Thunderbird, etc.). Viruses and phishing scams are safely quarantined on the server, never to reach a desktop within our organization.
Where did the nifty graphs go?
Because of the high volume of traffic at our sites, all GWD Network sites have been transferred from our in-house servers to an external host (not a co-location). Email for our domain is being handled by Google and hosting is now with 1 & 1. The rates are good, we get a ton of features, and we have CLI access for scheduling cron jobs and whatnot. If you prefer a more technical treatment of our former setup, head over to rackIT, another site @GWD Networks, and have a look at the Anti-SPAM/Anti-Virus Stats page there.
