87% of e-mail traffic is spam

Well, I set this up on the numerous macs that I administer, as well as the two users (my personal "home" and my business "home" users on my MBP. ON my business side, I added another condition that the "sender is not in my address book", as it was putting too many real messages in to JUNK at first.

It is working great now- very little JUNK hits my INBOX.

However, I notice that the mail I send out is flagged as JUNK in my SENT folder, and mail that I receive from myself goes into JUNK instead of my INBOX.

Any thoughts on how to fix this?

Most of my spam is the "Message undeliverable" generated from emails that I didn't send using false email addresses - the problem of having one's own domain for email.

I think these are all from compromised PCs *spit* that have my email - the day I find out whose it is...

I run a mail server that's been on the net for well over 10 years now, and have been running software that creates graphs of how much spam is received vs how much is actually delivered to mailboxes. Reasons for not delivering would be due to a variety of reasons including suspected spam/phishing/virus emails as well as legitimate rejections of incorrectly addressed mails etc.

For the past year 9,391,126 mails were sent to my server. Of those only 1,762,039 emails were accepted.

So, for me, it's about 18% of mails that are accepted, and 82% rejected. Of course this figure isn't entirely accurate given that some rejections aren't due to spam, and also because a reasonable number of spams still make it past the checks.

It's a pretty crappy signal to noise ratio.

@4 - The tubes -- bahahahaha. Nice ;)

Hope it's not clogging up all the tubes :-/

Spam outbreaks got bigger, faster, and smarter during 2006.

I've never get spam :-D

Except in my gmail account :S

That's not terribly surprising, considering probably 90% of my actual-in fact-physical mail is junk. It's just not as graphic or personal...

Also does that include junk mail that I've technically registered for? Probably 75% of my email is from Amazon, MacMall, REI and other places I've actually ordered things from.