Okay, I'll bite. Where's your website? Dave
Pete McNeil wrote: > > Well, you _could_ review the messages captured by your spamtraps and > create filters for them. > > <shameless plug> > > Or, if you were a Message Sniffer subscriber then you would simply point > your spamtrap aliases at our inbound spam address for your system and we > would create new filters for you. > > </shameless plug> > > If you were really, really slick you could even script something to > collect statistics on the IP sources of the spam arrivals, compare those > to the stats of the ham arrivals (normal email) and create a dynamic, > local ip block list for your system... nah... that sounds like a lot of > work. > > _M > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > >David Delbridge > >Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 3:06 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Catch-All Mailbox Caveats > > > > > >Going slightly off-topic, how do you use the messages > >collected in spamtraps? I understand the concept -- mail > >received at the spamtrap address is guaranteed to be > >unsolicited advertising -- but how do you translate this > >information to filters at the mail server for the future > >benefit of legitimate addresses? > > > >FYI, I employ Declude Anti-Spam. Realizing from your advice > >that I can so easily create a spamtrap, I am now interested in > >incorporating one into my Declude configuration, assuming > >that's how it would work. > > > >Thank you all for the helpful replies! > > > >Dave > > > >Pete McNeil wrote: > >> > >> You are not overreacting. > >> The "nobody" alias is one of the better ways to create new > >spamtraps. > >> Turn it on for a while and magical new addresses start to receive > >> email. Collect the names from the logs, set them up as spamtrap > >> aliases, and turn off the nobody - instant targeted > >spamtraps for that > >> domain. > >> > >> If you don't want to have that effect... I highly recommend > >you don't > >> turn on the nobody alias. > >> > >> -- a more practical reason not to turn on the nobody is that > >it delays > >> the time before the sender realizes they've got the wrong address. > >> Sometimes the recipient doesn't even realize it's wrong - and that > >> leads to problems later on --- > >> > >> Hope this helps, > >> _M > >> > >> Pete McNeil (Madscientist) > >> President, MicroNeil Research Corporation > >> Chief Sortmonster (www.sortmonster.com) > >> > >> >-----Original Message----- > >> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David > >> >Delbridge > >> >Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:07 PM > >> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >Subject: [IMail Forum] Catch-All Mailbox Caveats > >> > > >> > > >> >Hi all, > >> > > >> >What are the real-world caveats of offering "catch-all" mailboxes > >> >(a.k.a. "nobody" aliases in IMail)? > >> > > >> >A hosting provider, I have long denied this service to our > >customers > >> >for fear of spammers inundating our mail servers with fabricated > >> >addresses culled from a name dictionary. Furthermore, I fear that > >> >when those spammers do not receive a "No Such User" error, > >they will > >> >catalogue the bogus addresses as "legit," share it with other > >> >spammers, and forever send thousands (millions?) of mis-addressed > >> >messages to a domain that has long since disabled the catch-all > >> >feature. > >> > > >> >Am I overreacting? > >> > > >> >Any input is appreciated. > >> > > >> >Dave > >> > > >> >-- > >> > > >> >David M. Delbridge > >> >Circa 3000 > >> >ColdFusion Hosting > >> >http://www.circa3k.com > >> > > >> >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > >> >List Archive: > >> >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%>40list.ipswitch.com/ > >> > > >> >Knowledge Base/FAQ: > >> >http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > >> > > >> > > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > >> List Archive: > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > >> Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > >-- > > > >David M. Delbridge > >Circa 3000 > >ColdFusion Hosting > >http://www.circa3k.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > >List Archive: > >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%>40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > >Knowledge Base/FAQ: > >http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ -- David M. Delbridge Circa 3000 ColdFusion Hosting http://www.circa3k.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
