From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > So if people route specific unused email addresses to spam traps, > what do they actually do with the received emails to reduce spam > to legitimate addresses ?
If you're not making the connection, you don't understand how spamd(8) works. Your MX receives mail for your-domain.tld. The spammer attempts to email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and their MTA ends up being blacklisted. Now they attempt to send spam to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', which is directed to your same MX host, and since they are blacklisted, they cannot. They try to send spam to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', also being serviced via your MX, and are blacklisted still. No users at your-other-domain.tld recieve spam. Look up the definition of the "tuple" in the spamd references. DS
