I think you are underestimating spammers. In my experience, spammers have much better configured spamming domains sporting proper SPF and whatnot than a lot of legitimate hosts...
They are much more motivated to get their messages across. Scott On Wednesday, 18/12/2024 at 22:32 Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: On 12/18/24 18:21, Scott Q. via mailop wrote: > So basically instead of saying: here, look for e-mails sent to > sdfdfgfgdg...@myrbl.com , they say: > grep your logs and find a hard bounce around with a distinctive > message - and therefore I also find their 'secret' spamtrap. Foolproof > logic. There's a difference in providing the spam trap address and providing the time frame of a rejected message. The former is trivial for you while the latter requires some effort on your part. Spam trap operators are probably used to seeing spammers not put forth any more effort than is absolutely necessary. Conversely they are probably used to seeing legitimate operators willing to spend the time, effort, and energy to identify things in logs and clean them up. In some ways it's a form of gating. It might be a low bar for a gate, but it seems to be one that works well enough (TM). Plus it's one that doesn't require the spam trap operators to give out the spam trap address. Legitimate operators care about the source of the problem message, not the spam trap address. As for others saying something about having a compromise a day, I think that's just dependent on the size of the operator. I bet you that all of the email oligarchs have at least one compromised account at any given time. But they also have a LOT of non-compromised accounts to offset the ratio. -- I have no idea what size your operation is and I mostly don't care. -- Grant. . . . _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
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