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Spam statistics

Mac OS X Mail.appI know that I get a lot of spam, but most is found by Mail.app’s great filters.

Just to keep track, I forged a technological chain from Mail.app (Mac OS X) to a WordPress plugin that I wrote to display the data on this blog. The links in this chain included: AppleScript, a local MySQL database on the computer that I keep all my email stat data, PHP called by the AppleScript to record mail data to the database, a shell script (run by a cron job to upload current stats to the web server), and the plugin. A long chain, indeed.

Sufficed to say, one can now peruse a summary of the last three days of my spam, noting the color indicates the percentage of email received that was spam (more red is bad). I could display more history, but really, it’s just spam. It’s not that important!

Cool, huh? :mrgreen:

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