Analyzing Spam - Visualization

Beautiful image of visualization spam traffic on primary mailserver.

Every blue path is spam detected and delivered to mailbox spam folder, every yellow path is rejected spam.





Some numbers for this analysis:

• 14 days of mail.log period


• during this period mailserver processed 118 596 messages in total


• 73 297 messages (61,8 %) was spam


• 70  881 spam messages (96,7% of spam) was rejected before delivery based on various policy rules (yellow paths)


• 2 416 spam ( 3.3% of spam) messeges was delivered to mailboxes and marked as spam (blue paths)


• several big blue areas are biggest spam targets (various webmaster, support and info mailboxes)