Topic: Announce - alpha Spam and Anti virus analysis script

[brianr]

New version on the bug tracker and in my contrib directory:


http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/bread/

Bugs here:

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=819

Based on Charlie's re-write it runs very much faster, and does not use external commands.

It now tracks email delivered through fetchmail, and also local LAN sending as well.

[brianr]

New version upoaded, fixing a bug giving negative counts for the accepted emails.

And I forgot to say that you need to replace the mailstats.cron with the new one from the contribs directory.

[kruhm]

can you put a short howto.txt in the dir. Include:
-last date updated
-problem
-solution
-install procedures for those not familiar

[brianr]

will do, but not for a day or so - work intervenes!!

[brianr]

.. .and have done, plus update with some additions from Pascal SCHIRRMANN  .

[brianr]

and a small update - fixing percentages for RBL etc, and also re-arrangement of total lines.

[byte]

Brian,

Could you tell me what mail is defined as...

Misc.rejected                    :       58 (  5.28%)

The other results are clear, but I was wondering how it got to that result.

Thanks for your & others effort on this neat little script

[brianr]

"misc" covers mainly the situations where qpsmtp finds that the smtp protocol is not followed properly, arithmetically it is all rejected situations which are not covered by the RBL or Executible columns.

As far as I can make out many "built in" Virus and Spam engines often do not "wait" for the correct responses etc, but just try t send email as fast as possible to the receivers.  My own experience on my servers is that this seems to eliminate most Viruses, I only rarely get an "executible" rejection and NEVER get a Virus detected by Clam.

Hope that helps.  Others may have other thoughts on this.