Date: 2004-03-30T17:42:52
Editor: 68.5.202.38 <>
Wiki: SpamAssassin Wiki
Page: SpamTrapping
URL: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SpamTrapping
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= Spam Trapping =
Quite often, if you've been on the internet for a while, you'll have
accumulated a few old email accounts that nowadays get nothing but
spam. You can set these up as spam traps using SpamAssassin; see the
''SPAM TRAPPING'' section of the spamassassin manual page for details.
If you don't want to go to the bother of setting up a system yourself
to do this, feel free to set up a simple alias to forward any mails to
<someaddress@spamtraps.taint.org> -- replace "someaddress" with
something to identify you, such as your email addr or website with
non-alphanumeric chars replaced by underscores, or similar. (Please
also send me a mail at jm - spamtraps at jmason dot org if you do
this, so that I know who to contact if it starts going haywire, or the
quality drops.)
Mails sent to an address at the spamtraps domain are fed into the
SpamAssassin.org spam-trapping system, where they will then be
virus-scanned, de-duplicated, and fed into Razor, DCC, Pyzor and OPM.
Some notes: I monitor the quality of feeds coming into this, and if it
turns out to contain occasional bits of non-spam mail, I'll start
bouncing your feed with a 550 -- as a spam feed that isn't reliably
spam-only is *not* suitable for a spamtrap.
Also, messages relayed to the spamtrap must be either (a) direct
relaying as performed by a sendmail alias, or (b) message/rfc822
attachments with no Content-Transfer-Encoding. Again, if they're not,
I'll 550 them. And finally, if I can't figure out who's in control of
the feed, you guessed it, 550. So try to keep the quality control
up!
Editor: 68.5.202.38 <>
Wiki: SpamAssassin Wiki
Page: SpamTrapping
URL: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SpamTrapping
no comment
New Page:
= Spam Trapping =
Quite often, if you've been on the internet for a while, you'll have
accumulated a few old email accounts that nowadays get nothing but
spam. You can set these up as spam traps using SpamAssassin; see the
''SPAM TRAPPING'' section of the spamassassin manual page for details.
If you don't want to go to the bother of setting up a system yourself
to do this, feel free to set up a simple alias to forward any mails to
<someaddress@spamtraps.taint.org> -- replace "someaddress" with
something to identify you, such as your email addr or website with
non-alphanumeric chars replaced by underscores, or similar. (Please
also send me a mail at jm - spamtraps at jmason dot org if you do
this, so that I know who to contact if it starts going haywire, or the
quality drops.)
Mails sent to an address at the spamtraps domain are fed into the
SpamAssassin.org spam-trapping system, where they will then be
virus-scanned, de-duplicated, and fed into Razor, DCC, Pyzor and OPM.
Some notes: I monitor the quality of feeds coming into this, and if it
turns out to contain occasional bits of non-spam mail, I'll start
bouncing your feed with a 550 -- as a spam feed that isn't reliably
spam-only is *not* suitable for a spamtrap.
Also, messages relayed to the spamtrap must be either (a) direct
relaying as performed by a sendmail alias, or (b) message/rfc822
attachments with no Content-Transfer-Encoding. Again, if they're not,
I'll 550 them. And finally, if I can't figure out who's in control of
the feed, you guessed it, 550. So try to keep the quality control
up!