MailFoundry April Statistics
May 7, 2008
Here are the MailFoundry statistics for April 2008. The change we implemented to reject RBL connections had a huge impact on the volume of email processed and spam filtering in general.
- Total Messages: 3,836,034
- Allowed Messages: 182,261 (4.75%)
- Blocked Messages: 3,653,773 (95.25%)
A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:
- RBL 3,304,447 (86.14%)
- Spam 303,200 (7.90%)
- RFC 35,826 (0.93%)
- RP DNS 4,700 (0.12%)
- RP Sanity 3,926 (0.10%)
- Virus 1,534 (0.04%)
- Redlist 140 (0.00%)
MailFoundry March Statistics
April 1, 2008
Here are the MailFoundry statistics for March 2008.
- Total Messages: 2,131,578
- Allowed Messages: 178,834 (8.39%)
- Blocked Messages: 1,952,744 (91.60%)
A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:
- RBL 1,629,859 (76.46%)
- Spam 227,815 (10.69%)
- RFC 77,880 (3.65%)
- RP DNS 11,157 (0.52%)
- RP Sanity 4,546 (0.21%)
- Virus 1,334 (0.06%)
- Redlist 153 (0.01%)
MailFoundry February Statistics
March 1, 2008
Here are the MailFoundry statistics for February 2008.
- Total Messages: 1,778,795
- Allowed Messages: 150,863 (8.48%)
- Blocked Messages: 1,627,932 (91.51%)
A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:
- RBL 1,346,895 (75.72%)
- Spam 205,583 (11.56%)
- RFC 59,391 (3.34%)
- RP DNS 9,445 (0.53%)
- RP Sanity 5,340 (0.30%)
- Virus 1,143 (0.06%)
- Redlist 134 (0.01%)
MailFoundry January Statistics
February 1, 2008
Here are the MailFoundry statistics for January 2008.
- Total Messages: 1,690,051
- Allowed Messages: 148,045 (8.76%)
- Blocked Messages: 1,542,006 (91.23%)
A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:
- RBL 1,239,014 (73.31%)
- Spam 220.412 (13.04%)
- RFC 57,601 (3.41%)
- RP DNS 16,947 (1.00%)
- RP Sanity 6,663 (0.39%)
- Virus 1,217 (0.07%)
- Redlist 152 (0.01%)
MailFoundry December Statistics
January 1, 2008
Here are the MailFoundry statistics for December 2007.
- Total Messages: 1,439,293
- Allowed Messages: 129,907 (9.03%)
- Blocked Messages: 1,309386 (90.97%)
A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:
- RBL 1,045,618 (72.65%)
- Spam 197,662 (13.73%)
- RFC 41,057 (2.85%)
- RP DNS 17,587 (1.22%)
- RP Sanity 6,375 (0.44%)
- Virus 1,012 (0.07%)
- Redlist 75 (0.01%)
MailFoundry November Statistics
December 1, 2007
Here are the MailFoundry statistics for November 2007. Again, we broke two records (again) in November. We handled our largest volume of mail ever while having the lowest percent of allowed email.
- Total Messages: 1,128,442
- Allowed Messages: 122,290 (10.84%)
- Blocked Messages: 1,006,152 (89.12%)
A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:
- RBL 817,994 (72.49%)
- Spam 153,374 (13.59%)
- RFC 17,015 (1.15%)
- RP DNS 8,561 (0.76%)
- RP Sanity 7786 (0.69%)
- Virus 957 (0.08%)
- Redlist 465 (0.04%)
MailFoundry October Statistics
November 3, 2007
Here are the MailFoundry statistics for October 2007. Again, we broke two records in October. We handled our largest volume of mail ever while having the lowest percent of allowed email.
- Total Messages: 968,110
- Allowed Messages: 122,570 (12.66%)
- Blocked Messages: 845,540 (87.31%)
A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:
- RBL 672,567 (69.47%)
- Spam 139,550 (14.41%)
- RFC 22,031 (2.28%)
- RP DNS 3,750 (0.39%)
- RP Sanity 5,900 (0.61%)
- Virus 1,435 (0.15%)
MailFoundry September Statistics
October 1, 2007
Here are the MailFoundry statistics for September 2007. Again, we broke two records in Septemer. We handled our largest volume of mail ever while having the lowest percent of allowed email.
- Total Messages: 810,579
- Allowed Messages: 109,041 (13.45%)
- Blocked Messages: 701,538 (86.54%)
A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:
- RBL 535,362 (66.05%)
- Spam 134,372 (16.58%)
- RFC 22,975 (2.83%)
- RP DNS 3,702 (0.46%)
- RP Sanity 3,660 (0.45%)
- Virus 1,430 (0.18%)
MailFoundry August statistics
September 1, 2007
Here are the MailFoundry statistics for August 2007. We broke two records in August. We handled our largest volume of mail ever while having the lowest percent of allowed email.
- Total Messages: 806,260
- Allowed Messages: 114,666 (14.22%)
- Blocked Messages: 691,594 (85.77%)
A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:
- RBL 505,763 (62.73%)
- Spam 144,250 (17.89%)
- RFC 27,190 (3.37%)
- RP DNS 8,153 (1.01%)
- RP Sanity 4,357 (0.54%)
- Virus 1,824 (0.23%)
MailFoundry July statistics
August 1, 2007
Here are the MailFoundry statistics for July 2007. July was our largest volume of mail processed to date.
- Total Messages: 686,724
- Allowed Messages: 102,197 (14.88%)
- Blocked Messages: 584,527 (85.12%)
A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:
- RBL 403,858 (58.81%)
- Spam 134,863 (19.64%)
- RFC 37,418 (5.45%)
- RP DNS 3,986 (0.58%)
- RP Sanity 2,776 (0.40%)
- Virus 1,605 (0.23%)
