Tom, et al,
To be exactly clear, its really connections that are hitting the
greylist box, more so than messages. The number of connections varies
day by day of course. Just now I looked at a several log files and I'd
say the average is between 2,500,000 and 3,000,000 connection attempts
per day.
For today, there are approximately 193,000 entries marked GREY. That's
a somewhat fair statistic of how many people are seeing the 451
message. I cannot tell you matter-of-factly how many of those will
become trusted hosts. I cannot tell you how many folks will fail the
process either.
Your last question is answered by those graphs provided, but I agree it
is difficult to tell. You'd have to add together estimates over a
period of time. It seems like we had some specific statistics on that
somewhere else, but I cannot remember where right now, sorry.
./brm
Tom Rockwell wrote:
> Knowing the fraction of emails/spam rejected by the greylisting seems
> useful for assessing the value of greylisting. Could you add the
> following numbers?
>
> - number of messages hitting the greylist box per day
> - number of messages bounced by the greylist box with 451 message
> - number of messages marked as spam by spamassassin
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