Spam Trapping

Wiki MarkupQuite 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 \[http://spamassassin.org/doc/spamassassin .html spamassassin manual page\] for details.

(Update: this will no longer work with SA 3.0.0, as we have removed the support for responding to emails automatically from within SpamAssassin; however, it should be possible to whip up some procmail to do it quite easily

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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 OPMa couple of blocklists.

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.

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