We had a couple people contact us with concerns about their number of messages and I just wanted to clarify a couple of things.

If you’re looking at your reporting and seeing a large spike on the last day of each month, this is a known issue.  The report data that we get from the MailFoundry appliances has a bug in it when sending daily reports in that it sends the complete month’s data on the last day instead of just the daily totals for that day.  Until this bug is fixed we will simply be discarding the last day of the month from the totals we use for overage billing. To see what type of totals you generated for March, for example, set the end date to March 30th.

The second issue is in the “totals over time” graph in the bottom right.  These numbers are WAY out of whack.  This is a bug on OUR end, not MailFoundry’s.  I’m trying to track it down and get those numbers fixed, but in the meantime, please ignore those numbers.  The easiest way to total up your usage is to total up the slices of the pie chart in the upper left until I get the monthly totals graph fixed.

We’ve had requests for additional reporting data.  It’s high on my list of things to do.  If you have ideas for reports, changes to the existing reports such as how the data is presented, etc., please contact support@interjuncture.com so that we can take them into consideration as we expand our reporting.

As promised, here are the stats to date for the month of October on MF1:

RBL           13,051,276     78.13%  0 B 
Ham              1,602,461     9.59%  185.63 GB 
Spam            1,324,969     7.93%  6.20 GB 
RP DNS          476,087     2.85%  0 B 
RFC                162,981     0.98%  0 B 
RP Sanity        54,098     0.32%  0 B 
Virus                15,205     0.09%  1.0 MB 
Redlist             14,961     0.09%  0 B 
Size Ext.            1,745      0.01%  14.96 GB  
 
As shown here, only 9.59% of messages were allowed to pass through the gateway.

Wow that’s a lot of spam!  Aren’t you glad you’re Protected?

At approximately 12:45 am CST on October 10th, 2007, the virus filtering program on our mf1 gateway got hung up on a process.  As a result, almost 63,000 messages had to be put into the Unscanned queue.  This caused a delay in receipt of messages that had been sent overnight.

The issue was resolved at 10:00 am CST, and mail flow has returned to normal.  No messages were lost as a result of this issue.

Some of you may have noticed that the Report Center was showing no data for the last 5 or 6 days.  We’ve been working to correct the issue and I’m happy to report that it’s been corrected.

Reports from yesterday are now available and new report data will be available after midnight tonight.