Email Spam Trap

Brandon

Brandon

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Could anyone help me to fully utilise the spam trap feature in my mail server, I have already created & published a spam address on my website (which is working) but would like it to be receiving more traffic to fully utilise the bayesian learning capability.

Does anyone know of any sites that can multi list an email address for this purpose :confused: - it is really a pain to have to go site-by-site submitting it on blogs and forums... It would also be nice to be listed for those nigerian 419 / lottery scams.

As webmail is quite close to to telkom mail for its tolerance of spam (even with the "filters"), I have setup an account specifically for this - [email protected]
Mails to that account are collected, pushed through the local spam account and learned as spam.

Thanks! :D
 
Are you really sure that a spam trap is such a great idea?

I hope you have plenty of bandwidth available for your server. You going to be receiving over a gig of spam per day pretty soon if you carry on publishing your address like that :eek:
 
Brandon said:
Bring it!
As soon as it starts picking up I'll move it to the office server on uncapped.
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Dude - do you actually have any idea about the volumes of spam that 'they' will send if you open the door like that?? Have you tried to run a mail server recently?

You are going to bring your office server and uncapped line to its knees with a stunt like that. :sick:
 
Currently running 5 separate email servers handling 11 domains between home and other companies.

The main office one was moved over from an mweb solution which boasted features like no antispam or antivirus :mad:, when I took over there were a few machines infected with the blaster worm that successfully put the company's domain on many a spam list. (although a method of getting on lists I'm not going to purposely infect a machine and possibly get the company's IP's blacklisted). With the current server solution in place it is stopping 99.9% of it through selective greylisting, dnsbl queries, SPF & DK checks, etc...

If the webmail account gets out of hand I can always trash it. Also there is the added luxury of being able to download a quota from it and automatically deleting whatever's remaining.

So any suggestions besides a worm/virus?
 
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Brandon, spammers will sooner or later figure out you have an available address - don't you worry. I worked on a box today that was getting hammered with about 100,000 mails per hour.

If you want loads of spam I'll forward you everything in my ananzi account.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Brandon, spammers will sooner or later figure out you have an available address - don't you worry. I worked on a box today that was getting hammered with about 100,000 mails per hour.

If you want loads of spam I'll forward you everything in my ananzi account.
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Thanks, It seems to be working fine by itself, posted it on:
 
Folks, remember that the addresses in the From: and Return-Path: headers you see in spam you receive are forged 99.99% of the time, and very often turns out to be the address of someone completely innocent.

Which is why bouncing mail in general is a bad idea.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Which is why bouncing mail in general is a bad idea.
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Breaking RFC's is an even worse idea. :rolleyes:

There are now a large number of domains running SPF which makes them pretty difficult to spoof. Also - if you reject spam during the SMTP transaction then the sending system will be able to generate the bounce message and your server will not produce unnecessary back-scatter.

Everyone wins :D
 
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