Greylisting

The mailserver where @meat.net gets mail recently implemented greylisting. As a result, my spamload has dropped dramatically. How much? So much that one of the other people who still uses his @meat.net address contacted me via IM today to wonder where his stripper spam had gone.

I ran some stats:

Date Local spam All spam
Jan 23 289 291
Jan 24 422 426
Jan 25 391 399
Jan 26 362 393
Jan 27 389 443
Jan 28 433 499
Jan 29 571 649
Jan 30 335 367
Jan 31 393 453
Feb 1 393 444
Feb 2 355 413
Feb 3 336 397
Feb 4 357 413
Feb 5 299 353
Feb 6 15 72
Feb 7 25 65

“all spam” includes spam that is forwarded from other accounts, and is this immune to greylisting… damnit. So there you have it. From 357 spam on friday (the last full day without greylisting) to 15 spam on sunday (the first full day with greylisting). Not bad. Too bad about that other junk coming in from other addresses.

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