On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 04:09:52PM +0000, Daniel Colquitt via mailop wrote: > I’m running a small low-volume self-hosted mail server. Since my mail volume > is small, I’m considering setting up spamtraps to help train my spam filter. > Is this still effective? If so, are there any tips or short tutorials on > seeding spamtraps (i.e., getting the spamtrap address used by spammers)? I’ve > done a quick web search, but almost all of the hits are aimed at spammers > trying to avoid spamtraps.
In my experience, just putting the list of traps on a webserver with a routable IP address and listening on the conventional ports will serve you just fine. The bots that trawl the web for anyting with an at sign in it *will* find your list within days. The greytrapping retrospective at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (also with GOOG's trackers at https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html) might be useful. It's based on my experience with OpenBSD spamd (https://man.openbsd.org/spamd), and links to everyting (I think) I have written about that subject. But hopefully some of the information is useful even if you do not use that particular software. All the best, Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogposts https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
