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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
