Am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2026, 17:09:52 UTC+00:00:01 schrieb Daniel Colquitt via mailop: > 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.
I think it makes no real sense to run own classical spam traps just to get info about potential spammers to block them. The amount / share of spam you get down from that is comparably low. Beside this, spamtraps could be used (if known to someone bad) as a tool to block valid email traffic. Especially for more small volume email hosts using other datasources instead makes much more sense / is way more efficient - i.e.: - multiple DNSBLs - DCC - Pyzor / Razor etc. - commercial data sources(for small volume / private use often free entry products available) to weight it out wih i.e. SA or spamd a additionally well configured / adapted fail2ban may help as well very far against brute force stuff and even somewhat of (D)DoS. just my .02$ hth, niels. -- --- Niels Dettenbach Syndicat IT & Internet https://www.syndicat.com PGP: https://syndicat.com/pub_key.asc --- _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
