[Mimedefang] Accuracy of infected IP in mdlog

Jerome Tytgat jerome.tytgat at asterion.fr
Mon May 17 03:11:18 EDT 2004


> The way I see it, they can be trusted for statistics. But of course you have to actually know what it is they log before you decide how to interpret them.

Stating the relayadress has no meaning if it's wrong.
What's the point telling me that 127.0.0.1 is infected x times as I know I'm
not infected but it's because I used fetchmail that mimedefang tell me something like
that...
> 
> And of course that's also true for *all* forms of statistics, you have to know what data the statistics are based on before you decide how to interpret (or trust) the numbers.
> 
> /Jonas

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