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%)



