> Get permission to redirect e-mail from a client's former employees where > that employee's address receives a ton of spam.
Also, I've just checked a former employee's account who hasn't worked here for a year or soa lot of the mail sitting in their mailbox isn't SPAM. It also included: -Mailing list mail -Personal mail from people that obviously didn't know his new address -Domain name expiry warnings (would you want these to become false positives and lose your domain name?!) - I fowarded these :) -Product updates from companies he had purchased from (not really spam) ..and even a gift voucher from Amazon.com! If you automatically sa-learnt these messages you could really mess up your bayes database and make it very ineffective. So reusing an old mailbox and assuming it must all be spam I would say is a very bad idea. You'd be better off creating a honeypot address and posting to lots of newsgroups (eg alt.test) and putting it on as many websites as you legitimately can (WITHOUT spamming people's blogs/forums please!). Perhaps filling in a few unsubscribe requests from spam you already have in the name of the honeypot address (although I have actually witnessed spammers actually take me off their lists when I've done this to see what happens - not all spammers seem to be evil!). Nick...
