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.



-- 
Patrick Butts





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