From: "Fritz Borgstedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy
> <[email protected]> schreibt:
> >Nearly 17% of the spam I see is to addresses that have never or will
> >never
> >be valid on my system. As a result of this I have a relatively large
> >SpamTrapAdddresses.txt file- I have a script file to show me new
> >addresses
> >that the MTA rejects but aren't in the SpamTrapAddresses file. I've
> >started
> >to get dictionary based spam that starts with a | (pipe) symbol. Will
> >adding
> >these to the file break any versions of ASSP?
>
> Why are you doing that? That is quiet unwise.

When I first found ASSP i saw that as a way to easily block invalid
addresses- and keep them out of my MTA logs. It just became habit.

> It is sufficient, to have the mail rejected because of unknown user
> and use *some* as collect addresses . Collect Adresses is better here,
> because you want to collect some content, "unknown user"  and
> trap-addresses do not store anything.

ok- will do. Would you suggest newer or older spamed addresses on the
collect list? The collect addresses aren't valid as far as the MTA is
concerned- they will still end up in spam folder?

Bro



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