Patrick Butts wrote: > I'm kinda looking for a best practices kind of thing and this is > probably going to come out disjointed. Obviously, I can do whatever I > want to do but I'm interested in the thoughts of professional mail > managers etc, etc on what *they* would do and possibly their thought > processes behind their decisions. > > My situation is this. I have two email addresses that are honey pots > (for purposes of discussion, let's call them h...@domain and > h...@domain). I want to collect spam from them (as a training aid for > ASSP?) and I want ASSP to know that everything is SPAM from them. A few > years ago, I was told to put those emails into Spam Collect (which I did). > > I also have two users which are no longer using their accounts and will > never. I have removed them from the MTA (and the local addresses file > in ASSP). Let's call those user1@ and us...@. > > Knowing the situation, how would you use the various settings of ASSP > (which I will attempt to list here but if you can think of any other > "best practice" I would love to hear it). > > spamtrapaddresses:= > SpamTrap2NULL:=1 > DoPenaltyMakeTraps:=1 > PenaltyMakeTraps:=5 > noPenaltyMakeTraps:= > spamaddresses:=...@domain|h...@domain (not the actual addresses in my config) > RejectTheseLocalAddresses:=us...@domain|us...@domain > > What should I be or could I be doing to get the most bang for my value > of the honeypots and deleted users. I do want to make sure that I'm not > calling someone a spammer because they were a valid emailer when the the > valid users existed. So do I use noPenaltyMakeTraps for that purpose? > I guess I'm just not exactly sure how the make traps and use traps works. > > If you reply, could you put it in context to my situation? I'm a home > maintainer and not a business maintainer so I don't always know what > should be done or even what could be done with ASSP. > > using version 1.6.1.3 and been running my ASSP setup for about 1052 days > since last reset. So I'm not new to ASSP but some of these are newer > settings to me as I just upgraded from 1.3.? about a week or two ago. > > > > Anybody?
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