Yeah, what Atro said. It's not always easy to figure out what domains you're going to get lucky with, either. I had cultivated somewhere between 100-150 spamtrap domains, sometimes with help from friends, but also with a lot of guessing and searching on my own. It takes a lot of work and ends up costing a lot, if you're just a hobbyist. My domain registrar is charging about $20 for each domain's yearly renewal and that adds up quickly. I ended up recently transferring most of my spamtrap domains to some folks that I trust to do good things with them, because I'm tired of carrying the cost with little/no benefit.
Cheers, Al Iverson On Sun, Jan 4, 2026 at 11:18 AM Atro Tossavainen via mailop < [email protected]> 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. > > We don't seed ours. Instead, we aim to buy domains that would > receive a mail flow without us having to do anything to bring it > about. > > -- > Atro Tossavainen, Founder, Partner > Koli-Lõks OÜ (reg. no. 12815457, VAT ID EE101811635) > Tallinn, Estonia > tel. +372-5883-4269, https://www.koliloks.eu/ > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop > -- Al Iverson // 312-725-0130 // Chicago http://www.spamresource.com // Deliverability http://www.aliverson.com // All about me https://xnnd.com/calendar // Book my calendar
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