news

A few interesting email stats...

09-02-2012
We’ve just been reviewing some of the mountains of analytical information that we handle and observe to spot trends, potential problems and plan for growth.

Here were some figures you might find interesting.

  • Last week our email cluster processed 6.1Gb of emails in a single day.
  • Since the 14th of July 2011 (when the cluster was initialised) it has processed in excess of 3,136,910 emails or approximately 360gb.
  • Our gateway spam protection prevented 15 million spam emails from being processed by the cluster. 
  • That means 79% of incoming email traffic was spam!
  • Of the 21% of email that was processed, approx 10% of that was identified as being spam by our heuristics detection.
  • Less than 1% of of processed emails contained a virus.
  • We experienced just 2 false positives out of over 3 million! (A false positive is a genuine email stopped by mistake). 

Some quite amazing figures there that illustrate just how much traffic we deal with and the effectiveness of our email cluster service.

Share |
  • ATC Cadets get hi-tech computer equipment (02-03-2012)

    Members of 83 St Georges Squadron Air Training Corps have taken delivery of the latest hi-tech computer equipment

    Read More »
  • Stay Telford website launched (17-02-2012)

    This new website raises awareness of the organisation and contains Facebook, Twitter and Google+ features.

    Read More »
  • How will the Olympics affect your Internet connection? (16-02-2012)

    From the first week of June 2012 until early September 2012, there will be a number of major events taking place that will have a direct impact on the UK?s internet network infrastructure.

    Read More »