Jonathan, Google is quite good at filtering spam, so you may find that:
1) There is less for the Message Sniffer bot to pick up because Google
is filtering it.
2) Your mailserver may get get blacklisted because you're forwarding
spam to that mailbox; how would GMail know that you have the best of
Thanks,
Pete.
That answers my question
and makes good sense. I've been testing my own trap reporting and Scott's
timing couldn't have been better.
Andrew 8)
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McNeilSent: Monday, December 05, 2005 2:21 PMT
What is the best way to
get a spam trap going. I have an old "abandoned" email account that I
just use for testing. It gets some spam now, but a low volume. However,
100% of the mail is spam. It would be very easy to filter and keep the
non-Sniff'd mail and delete the remainder.
Should I
On Monday, December 5, 2005, 3:38:14 PM, Andrew wrote:
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(nuts, to fast on the "Send" button).
... plus, future hits on spam that is already detected can accumulate hits on, say, SNIFFEREXPIP that weren't already hitting. Therefore, trying to save bandwidth and processing power over at
On Monday, December 5, 2005, 3:33:33 PM, Andrew wrote:
>
I had the same question, but more specifically:
Is is helpful for sniffer trap (spam and user trap) submissions to skip, or to include messages on which sniffer already hits.
It's best for those messages to be removed. The tr
On Monday, December 5, 2005, 3:28:17 PM, Scott wrote:
>
I'm working on setting up a spamtrap that'll be for Sniffer.
One question:
Do you want the email to be filtered?
The following is the best option for us - it provides the most useful data while still keeping the bandwidth as
On Monday, December 5, 2005, 3:06:53 PM, Jonathan wrote:
JS> Just read your whole article very informative. I'm glad I
JS> subscibe to your service and still think its the best deal in
JS> town. I would like to set up a pop account to forward all spam to
JS> instead of sending it all to spam@ can
(nuts, to fast on the "Send" button).
... plus, future hits on spam that is already detected can
accumulate hits on, say, SNIFFEREXPIP that weren't already hitting.
Therefore, trying to save bandwidth and processing power over at sortmonster.com
by submitting less spam is not helpful.
Pe
I had the same question, but more
specifically:
Is is helpful for sniffer trap (spam and user trap)
submissions to skip, or to include messages on which sniffer already
hits.
I imagine that all trap hits are useful, and that duplicate
submissions reinforce the rule strength for a given h
I'm working on setting up a spamtrap that'll be for
Sniffer.
One question:
Do you want the email to be filtered?
options.
Bring in all email.
Delete all email that Sniffer finds a match on. So
the only mail left will be mail that Sniffer returned a 0 on.
Run normal tests.
Just read your whole article very informative. I'm glad I subscibe to your
service and still think its the best deal in town. I would like to set up a pop
account to forward all spam to instead of sending it all to spam@ can I just
use a gmail account for that and send you the login and password
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