[Dovecot] Getting more spam

[postmaster@webisp.co.uk]

Hi

Thanks for the offer.

What is a a spam sink, can you redirect it via MX records?

I am interested, as you say, in genuine spam, but not too bothered what 
the source is.

I do not use this account for anything else, so there are no non-spam 
messages in it.

Thanks
Tom

Neale Pickett wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 March 2007 1:47 pm, postmaster at webisp.co.uk wrote:
> 
>> However at the moment I am not getting much spam to my mail server -
>> running dovecot and postfix :)
> 
> You need to be really careful about this.  It turns out that getting a *clean* 
> spam feed is quite challenging.  You want to make sure it's:
> 
> * Verbatim spam (not forwarded, classified, or otherwise messed with)
> * 100% spam, in other words you want to be absolutely certain that 
> a "legitimate" email didn't slip in, for instance, you want to make sure 
> people aren't able to taint it by redirecting real email from their 
> mother-in-law
> * An accurate representation of the sort of spam you're interested in.  For 
> instance, do you care about things that postfix could drop by checking the 
> hostname given with HELO?  Are you interested in spam resulting from usenet 
> posts, web spiders, or something else?
> 
> I have a spam sink--currently turned off--that I can re-enable for you if you 
> aren't too picky about the last point.  Better, I think, would be for you to 
> seed your own spam sink, but that takes time and maybe you can't wait.
> 
> Neale