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One trick is having an tarpit email adress on your website. It is hidden using CSS so no real visitor sees it but it is visible in source. If your mail server r
by Croak 6mo ago
One trick is having an tarpit email adress on your website. It is hidden using CSS so no real visitor sees it but it is visible in source. If your mail server recieves mail for that adress you can just block that IP for 24h.
- MichaelApproved 6mo agoThis sounds like bad advice and would result in blocking google and other major ESPs. I occasionally get spam from people who took the time to create gmail accounts. Based on this advice, the honey pot email address would get spam from a Gmail account and your script would block Gmail servers.
- notpushkin 6mo agoYeah, I mean, you can personally vet those domains/IPs?
- Croak 6mo agoThere exist lists of email providers. Those you can whitelist, ie. they can't get on the blacklist. Even then they would only be blocked temporarily. There also exists postmaster@domain.com which should not filter at all. I am aware that you are able to abuse said system but if you monitor logs those issues would only be temporary.
- notpushkin 6mo agoSimilar in spirit to this: https://www.projecthoneypot.org/ https://www.projecthoneypot.org/