On 14/06/06, Spruell, Darren-Perot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>From the emails earlier in the thread I was expecting something else than
greytrapping.
Terms like "spam reporting engine" and "older spam proxies" indicated that
they were
talking about something else. I was interested in what that was.
/Tony
--
Tony Sarendal - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP/Unix
-= The scorpion replied,
"I couldn't help it, it's my nature" =-
