So I told you all a while back about an experiment with a spam-trap mailbox. I am happy to announce that it is working exactly as I had hoped, and has cut down on the number of spam emails that I have been receiving at my primary employer's place of business.
So here is the howto:
First of all, create a new user account, or virtual mail account for your spamtrap. Mine is Al Goholic, but you can choose whatever you like. I suggest a mailbox name that has zero chance of receiving legitimate mail. I am also assuming that this mailbox will be located in /var/spool/mail/usernamehere. Finally, you will need a fairly new Spamassassin, since the older ones in many linux distros do not include the bayesian filter.
So next off, we have to create a cron job that will run the spam learning. Mine is here (and a little crude, but it works):
#!/bin/bash
if [[ `cat /var/spool/mail/algoholic | wc -c` -ge 10 ]] ; then
sa-learn --spam --showdots --mbox /var/spool/mail/algoholic
rm -f /var/spool/mail/algoholic
fi
That is all folks. It takes a couple of weeks for you to get fully indexed by the spam bots, although you can also hit some reply to unsubscribe links with this email address substituted for your real addy if you want.
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