Re[4]: [sniffer] POP3 Account Question

2005-12-06 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, December 5, 2005, 6:02:02 PM, John wrote: 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

Re[4]: [sniffer] POP3 Account Question

2005-12-06 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, December 5, 2005, 6:02:02 PM, John wrote: What is the best way to get a spam trap going. I forgot to mention another way to set up spamtraps that I definitely "don't recommend". It is, of course, highly theoretical and possibly dangerous ;-) If a new pc (actually a very

RE: Re[4]: [sniffer] POP3 Account Question

2005-12-06 Thread William Van Hefner
Pete, How about just creating some accounts that are commonly targeted by dictionary attacks, but that were never actually valid accounts on our server? I could redirect all of them to a common mailbox. There are also a few other common (non-role) addresses that we do not use, which always get