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atlas 
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 Topic: how does honeypot feature work?Posted: 27 July 2005 at 12:04am |
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Hi there, i am new to this...any one would please care to point me to a faq or can please explain how does honeypot feature work? What is ther creteria for collecting IP numbers that go into pot? Much appreciated... thanks Atlas |
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Marco
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Posted: 27 July 2005 at 3:06am |
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Put, for your domains nonexistant mail adresses into honeypot, and anyone that sends mail to those will get banned. That is basically the idea. Suppose you donot have a mail user with the name 'spammagnet@yourdomain.com' , but that mail adress is bombarded with spam from various senders, add to honeypot and all the spammers will get banned. |
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Anyone who is capable of getting himself made president, should on no account be allowed to do the job. D.Adams
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Alan
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Posted: 28 July 2005 at 12:49pm |
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More specifically, it is the IP of the sender that is blocked.
This should be used with care however, and not without considering that
many spammers still use dynamic addressing zombies that use part of
legitament IP ranges (Comcast, etc).
You might want to make use of the INI feature to do not add certain IP's to the block list. |
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