Re: Mail server load

"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:
> Yesterday you had almost 1 for 1 valid email. By then I think I was getting
> about 3-4 per valid email but since then it's sky rocketed and it looks more
> like 30+ per 1 valid message.

FWIW, this is what I see in traffic to an address I've had to abandon
because of spam:

 488 Aug 8
 433 Aug 9
 435 Aug 10
 426 Aug 11
 504 Aug 12
 458 Aug 13
 469 Aug 14
 390 Aug 15
 433 Aug 16
 371 Aug 17
 520 Aug 18
36473 Aug 19
35808 Aug 20

It's about 3pm local time here, so by midnight the stat for today will
probably be nearly double yesterday's total.

The spam traffic had been around 2K/day at the beginning of the year,
but tapered off to around 500 as you see above.  This spike is ten times
the highest I've seen before.  If I were actually downloading this crap,
and not rejecting it at the SMTP handshake, my DSL line would be
saturated :-(

            regards, tom lane