Another way to seed spamtrap addresses is to make up some and
then feed them into "unsubscribe" links in spam sent to regular
users. I've got some of those I started that way 15 years ago
and they're still going strong.
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
That's a lot of work, there's a much easier way
Just search your /var/log/maillog for user unknown messages, and
create email addresses for the unknown users which are showing up
multiple times over multiple days. It's a great trick because it gets
spammers who already have email addresses in their
spamlists and who are too lazy to remove them when they get a
user unknown message from the mailserver.
I have a pretty old domain - I've seen user unknown messages for
users who cancelled mailboxes on the domain over a decade ago. I figure
10 years of getting user unknown messages is long enough for any real
humans and for legitimate mailing lists to remove those entries.
Ted
On 11/21/2014 8:10 AM, Joe Quinn wrote:
We are setting up some honeypot email addresses, and were wondering if
anyone here had tips on how to include those addresses on webpages and
other places.
We're currently going with a pretty simple <!-- honey...@example.com -->
HTML comment. Is that too obvious? Should we put it into a CSS invisible
div as well? Any other ideas?
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