Hi, On Sun, 16 May 2010 10:47:43 am Ted Cooper wrote: > A spamtrap will accept everything at RCPT time, otherwise it's very > useless. How else would it accept all spam that comes to it? Some traps > will return 5xx at the end of the data phase, but most will just > silently accept the message as spam with 2xx codes all the way. > > Doing a sender callout to this type of email account provides no useful > information.
Yes, you're right. I got blacklisted at uceprotect.net because of an automated system that sent mail to a spamtrap. However, on reflection, it must of course be blacklisting based on RCPT queries. Here's a scenario that can cause this: 1. Website runs a forums which protects registrations with CAPTCHA. 2. Human being (or smart bot) signs up for the forum, solves the CAPTCHA, then enters an email address that is a spamtrap address. 3. Forum software sends email to that address as the last part of verifying the user. (Email goes to the spamtrap.) -- Russell Robinson ([email protected]) -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
