Spam statistics
I wanted to see how much spam I recieved over time so I wrote a small bash script which is run whenever procmail∞ is given a piece of mail flagged as spam. It is then possible to make a nice plot using gnuplot.
Download
spam_stats.sh∞
Requirements
Installation
Make the script executable and put the script somewhere comfortable. You probably want to edit the data_file, plot_file and gnuplot_add variables found at the top of the file.
If you use procmail then you can use the following procmail rule. In my case, the classification is done by SpamBayes∞ but a similar rule should work for most other classification systems.
:0 fw:sslock * ^X-Spambayes-Classification: spam | spam_stats.sh report
Usage
To create a plot simply run the following command.
$ spam_stats.sh plot
Example output
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