Reports - SMTP Mail

Overview

Summary Statistics

Received

The number of mail messages received by the server. Each mail message may have multiple recipients (e.g. a mail might be sent to marsha@example.com, jan@example and cindy@example.com)

Delivered

The number of mail messages delivered to a mailbox. Using the above example, you would get 3 "delivered messages" for the 1 "received message".

Forwarded

The number of forwarded messages using Postfix internal forward mechanism.

Deferred

The number times a message was queued. On every attempt to deliver mail, the deferred count increases by one, i.e. a single message can generate may deferred counts. Most of this traffic is caused by bounced spam messages going back to non-existent mail servers.

Bounced

The number of bounced messages. Most of this is caused by spammers using dictionary attacks (guessing e-mail addresses).

Rejected

Similar to a bounce, but caused by misbehaving mail servers or messages (e.g. a missing "From" e-mail address) or the mail servers internal filtering mechanism.

Held

The number of messages held. An administrator basically put aside messages in the mail queue for later delivery. This requires action on the command line.

Discarded

The number of messages discarded. The Postfix mail server can be configured to discard mail messages. By default, ClarkConnect does not use this feature.