[Dovecot] Getting more spam

[postmaster@webisp.co.uk]

Also, I am running a custom smtp proxy in front of postfix to log all 
SMTP transactions, and postfix is configured to be very lenient in terms 
of checking.

Tom

postmaster at webisp.co.uk wrote:
> 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