"Rod Whitworth" <glis...@witworx.com> writes: > I have had a stack of both sides of the invalid address email stuff for > some time. > > I make all the ficticious addresses into spam traps. That way I punish > the fools whose servers "return" mail whence it came not. They just get > tarpitted and I don't care as they should be refusing to accept > incoming mail which they cannot deliver.
Just like Rod describes here, I get a fair amount of goodness out of some local greytrapping, where joejob-generated bounces serve as the source of the bogus addresses. I *do* see some of the increased spam volume delivered too, but then it's fairly easy to feed the offending IP addresses into the local spamd-greytrap and serve them as training to the bayesian beast. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20120604050025 and references therein show a 'works for me' example config (although the first ruleset block should really be discarded in favor of the second one, a true brainfart if there ever was one), with some further field notes to be found over at my blag. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
