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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:28:40 -0500
From:      John <john@starfire.mn.org>
To:        Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>
Cc:        John <john@starfire.mn.org>, Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Wpoison?????
Message-ID:  <20100426162840.GA76688@elwood.starfire.mn.org>
In-Reply-To: <t2ja0777e081004260804w85e2dc71r109571b3c1bafb8b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:04:33PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote:
> >> There are better systems that have a pure honeypot which actually
> >> accepts mail (and add the IPs that send mail to a blacklist)
> >
> > OK - where do we find one of THOSE?
> I have never researched this topic in depth but
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_%28computing%29#Further_reading_and_external_links
> seems to have some links.
> Setting one up on your own isn't hard. Just create a new mail account
> and blacklist anyone who sends mail to that account.

Something like taking all the old e-mail accounts in my system that
are now going to /dev/null (but which I know from the e-mail logs
still get TONS of spam) and make something like a /dev/mailsink that
is a named pipe with a PERL script reading it that pulls out the
IP addresses and puts them in the pfctl "spammers" blacklist table?
I wouldn't need to create a new e-mail account, I've already got
lots of them that seem to be pure spam magnates, including "man"
(the manual pages psuedo-user) which are getting stuff sent to them
all the time.  I'm pretty sure that anyone sending to "man@starfire.mn.org"
is a spammer...

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John Lind
john@starfire.MN.ORG



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