Thursday, 13. November 2003

Intercept: the first 24 hours

Started using
Raymond Neeves' Intercept yesterday.
Was just going to implement it on the secondary MX because of the
heavy proportion of abuse found there, but in the end decided I may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb, so put it on all our inbound mail hosts. Specifically, as I was trying to verify the whitelisting feature and such a small proportion of legitimate email is handled by the secondary MX, then the secondary MX would make a poor test for whitelisting.
Anyhoo... A little under 24 hours in and the stats look like the picture to your right. With under 30 entries in the local whitelist, we are already whitelisting over 20% of email we accept. I expect to be able to get that up to 50% without too much effort and ultimately perhaps to as much as 70 or 80%.
This has also fixed
the problem mentioned here where we couldn't accept email from one particular reseller without also letting in lots of spam.
Jolly good...
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