[Scspamcop] Re: setting up a spamtrap [MTA level]

[Andrzej Filip]

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Technomage Hawke wrote:
> Andrzej Filip wrote:
>> Technomage Hawke wrote:
>>> ok guys,
>>> I have been lurking in here for rather some time (more than 4 years now)
>>> and I am in a position (as network administrator) to start putting a
>>> clamp-down on spam at the website I now work for.
>>>
>>> what is the proceedure for setting up a spamtrap and what application(s)
>>> do you fold recommend for a debian linux based OS?
>> Which MTA do you use? [exim/postfix/sendmail (in alphabetical order)]
>>
>> The most efficient way (IMHO) is to create "wild-card spam-traps" but it
>> is MTA dependent [ I may help with sendmail].
>>
>> Some wild-card patterns do not require any *new* advertisement
>> whatsoever :-)
> 
> there was a recent upgrade and exim was dumped in favor of postfix. I'll
> have to wait a bit as I am still sorting out the mess the previous
> administrator made of the system before his exit from the company.

The most portable way (without wild-cards) of spamtrap creation at MTA
level is to:
a) create one account/mailbox for storing spamtraped messages
b) create one mail alias per one spamtrap address

The remaning problems:
1) How to "advertise" spamtrap addresses
2) What to do with spamtraped messages
I use combination of fetchmail, spamassassin, procmail and perl scripts
to following after *brief* persoanl inspection:
2a) report received spam to spamcop.net and razor2 (using spamassassin)
2b) report received spam to news:news.admin.net-abuse.sightings

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[pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi at priv.onet.pl : anfi at xl.wp.pl
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