PostalCare®
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19.1.23 SMTP Server: Good Email Count

The SMTP Server: Good Email Count reports display the top 20 (max) SMTP server IP addresses that have processed the most incoming, outgoing and internal emails. The reports are generated based on the count of emails successfully sent and received through each SMTP server. For each record, the SMTP server IP address, last message date and time, count and volume details are displayed.

19.1.24 SMTP Server: Good Email Volume (KB)

The SMTP Server: Good Email Volume (KB) reports display the top 20 (max) SMTP server IP addresses that have processed the most incoming, outgoing and internal emails based on volume in KB. The reports only include volume and count details on emails that were successfully delivered (good). For each record, the SMTP server IP address, last message date and time, count and volume details are displayed.

19.1.25 Honeypot: Total Email Count

The Honeypot: Total Email Count report displays the Honeypot email addresses that have received the most emails by count.

A Honeypot email address is a fake address put out on the Internet to lure spammers to send emails to. When the spammer sends an email to a Honeypot email address, they are added to the known spammer list (if that is the "action" chosen on the Honeypot policy at the System level). This prevents all spams from that particular sender from being delivered to any other email address within this organization.

The following information is displayed in the report:

19.1.26 Honeypot: Total Email Volume (KB)

The Honeypot: Total Email Volume (KB) report displays the Honeypot email addresses that have received the most emails by volume. The volume is displayed in KB (Kilobytes).

A Honeypot email address is a fake address put out on the Internet to lure spammers to send emails to. When the spammer sends an email to a Honeypot email address, they are added to the known spammer list (if that is the "action" chosen on the Honeypot policy at the System Administrator level). This prevents all spams from that particular sender from being delivered to any other email address within this organization.

The following information is displayed in the report:

19.1.27 Attachment File Types Received Volume (KB)

The Attachment File Types Received Count report displays the top attachment file types received by count. The list and count includes attachments that were blocked, removed, renamed or delivered.

The following information is displayed in the report:


Chapter 20
System Health

20.1 System Health Overview

Clicking on System Health in the main menu will open a new window entitled System Health. The System Health window displays the status of the PostalCare programs and SMTP servers:

The information displayed is used for PostalCare technical support purposes.

20.1.1 PostalCare Receiver Health

The PostalCare Receiver table displays the current and total statistics for the PostalCare Receiver program. These statistics are used for PostalCare technical support purposes. The statistics displayed are:

Table 20-1 PostalCare Receiver Health Statistics
Statistic Description
Incoming Transactions/Sec How fast email transactions are coming into the PostalCare server.
Processed Transactions/Sec How fast email transactions are being processed. The total column displays the average number of transactions being processed per second.
Processed Email/Sec How fast emails are being processed. The total column displays the average number of emails being processed per second.
Elapsed Time How much time has elapsed (in seconds) from the last time the statistics were updated. The total column displays how long the PostalCare Receiver program has been running.
Processed Transactions The number of transactions currently being processed. The total column displays the total number of transactions processed since the statistics were last reset.
Email The number of emails currently being processed. The total column displays total number of emails processed since the statistics were last reset.
Spam The number of spam emails currently being processed. The total column displays the total number of spam emails processed since statistics were last reset.
Blocked The number of blocked emails currently being processed. The total column displays the total number of blocked emails processed since statistics were last reset.
Delivered The number of emails currently being delivered. The total column displays the total number of delivered (good) emails processed since statistics were last reset.
Added to Pending The number of transactions that are currently being passed on to the PostalCare Forwarder program for further processing. The total column displays the total number of transactions that have been passed to the forwarder since statistics were last reset.

Note: If the PostalCare Receiver program is not running, a message will be displayed in the table.

20.1.2 PostalCare SMTP Server Health Statistics

The PostalCare SMTP Server table displays the current and total statistics for the PostalCare SMTP Server. These statistics are used for PostalCare technical support purposes. The statistics displayed are:

Table 20-2 PostalCare Receiver Health Statistics
Statistic Description
Transactions Received The current and total number of transactions received from the outside to the PostalCare SMTP server.
Timeouts The current and total number of times that transactions were not received at the PostalCare SMTP server due to timeouts.
Socket Errors The current and total number of transactions that received socket errors and were temporarily rejected.
Illegal Relays The current and total number of transactions rejected for attempting to use this organization's SMTP server as an illegal relay.
Unrecognized Commands The current and total number of transactions rejected because the transaction contained an invalid SMTP command.
Bad Command Sequences The current and total number of transactions rejected due to incorrectly ordered command sequences from the sending SMTP server.
Blocked by DNSBL The current and total number of transactions that were blocked by the DNS blocking feature in the PostalCare server (only if configured by the System Administrator). DNSBL is a domain name service based blocking service.
Transactions Completely Received The current and total number of transactions received completely by the PostalCare SMTP server.
Transactions Pending The current and total number of transactions received but not yet processed by the PostalCare SMTP server.
Max Receive Queues The current and total number of transactions temporarily rejected because the retry queue has reached the maximum number allowed. Only a certain amount of transactions can be handled simultaneously.
Worker Threads Killed For internal use only.
Listener Threads Killed For internal use only.
No Sockets Available The current and total time that no sockets were available when a transaction was sent to the real SMTP server. The transaction is then temporarily rejected.


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