Re: [exim] Spam volume spike

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Author: ROGERS Richard
Date:  
To: iane, exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] Spam volume spike
iane@??? wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed a huge spike in spam volumes recently. For 10 months, up
> until about 3 weeks ago, we were consistently rejecting an average of
> about 250,000 spam messages per day. We'd never rejected more than
> 400k messages.
>
> Then, about 26 June, we rejected over 400k messages, and numbers kept
> rising with over a million messages rejected on a couple of
> occasions.
>
>     <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/email/stats/>
>     <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/email/stats/spamgraph.png>

>
> Stats published by Cambridge show a similar trend. Have others seen a
> similar thing?


Yup, me too, as you (Ian, and some others) may have seen on
uk-mail-managers ;-)...

http://crusmaildb1.staffs.ac.uk/eximgraphs/

Regards

Richard

--
Richard Rogers
IT Development and Innovation Manager
Staffordshire University


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