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It has been our experience that 80+% of all of the traffic directed at your e-mail server is malicious. The majority of traffic comes from two types of mail activity:

• Real-Time Black Hole Lists (RBLs)
  Real Time Black Hole Lists (or RBLs) are lists of Industrial Spamming organizations. These organizations purchase bandwidth and use it to flood the Internet with spam. Because their traffic originates from the same IP addresses, they are easy to track down and block. The excellent SpamHaus project does an excellent job of vetting Industrial Spam organizations.

• E-Mail Address Harvesting (Mining) Activity
  Ever wonder how Spammers find you? They find you by harvesting e-mail addresses from any possible source. Spammers scan Internet sites and traffic and extract (or Mine) e-mail addresses from:
  • Web Sites - by spidering e-mail hyperlinks, spammers collect every e-mail address posted on your web site.
  • Discussion Boards - by extracting member e-mail addresses
  • E-Mail Chain Letters - that get passed along from person to person collect a lot of e-mail addresses. If it gets passed to a Spammer, they've got you.
  • Domain Name Registration - most domain name registration information is publically available. Unless you are using cloaked domain name registrations, Spammers will find you. Most people don't use cloaked registrations - because it costs more money.
  • Internet News Groups - Spammers use News Group postings to collect e-mail addresses
  • Other Spammers - Spam e-mail lists are bought, sold and traded

  But, the best source of new, functioning e-mail addresses is Your Own Mail Server! Spammers employ an army of machines (we've seen over 100,000) to scan your e-mail servers. These spam mining engines connect to your mail server and make SMTP request(s) to send e-mail to completely random users at your domain.

  Your server will normally respond with a No such user message. However, about once in 10,000 times (give or take), the Spammer will guess right - and when they do, that user will be innundated with spam.

  Spammers have complete control over this army of machines. Normally, a typical SMB mail server may be queried no more than a hundred times per hour. However, when spammers decide to become aggressive, they can easily hit your server 3,000+ times per hour.

PerfectMail records all Legitimate traffic along with RBL and Mining activity. Legitimate traffic is displayed in green. RBL activity is displayed in purple. Mining activity is displayed in blue. Follow this link to check out the PerfectMail DashBoard on a live, production system.

We Know About all RBL and Mining Connections

PerfectMail keeps track of all mail activity, good or otherwise. We know which IP addresses engage in RBL and/or Mining activity. We treat them with the same level of courtesy and respect that they demonstrate to us!

Here's an up to the day graph of who is attempting to abuse our PerfectMail server. We log everything so we know exactly why each IP address is on our list!

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