How to open a spam trap?

[Julian Field]

At 16:46 28/03/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>     I've been running MailScanner and SpamAssassin for about a month
>now and it's been a fantastic addition. There's still some spam
>slipping through, but the volume is way down.
>
>     Now it's time to start the attack back. Sort of. What I want to do
>is to create a spam trap address. This is a mail address that receives
>nothing legitimate. Any mail arriving at that address is guaranteed to
>be spam. I've hacked up a log scanner that looks for unknown addresses
>in my mail log with the intention of adding them as aliases for the
>spam trap.
>
>     For dealing with the spam, I'd like to automate things as much as
>possible. The first thought is to have a procmail script that
>automatically forwards incoming email to spamassassin's autolearn,
>forwards to razor, bayes, etc. etc. This script will be easier to write
>if I can turn off all MailScanner manipulations on incoming email on
>that account. This way I have the email in its pristine form to work
>with. The alternative is to have a script that processes the mail
>before handing it off to autolearn et al. On the one hand this would
>give me the chance to ignore email that is already correctly tagged,
>but it would also require me to strip off the MailScanner headers.
>
>     First off, what do folks recommend? Second, is there a way to tell
>MailScanner to simply pass through mail for a particular user?

The 2nd question is easy. Just use a ruleset for "Virus Scanning" and "Spam
Checks" that produces the answer "no" for your spam-trap address, but
produces "yes" by default.
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Julian Field
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