Anyone have non-critical but spam-receiving e-mail accounts?

[Beansprout]

I'm about to trial some new spam-fighting techniques for my company's servers, and I'd like to get some folk using the system to see how well it works....essentially your domain's e-mail would need pointing to my testing server for it to chug through it.

Messages shouldn't get eaten, but they may - so I'm only looking for people who won't kill me if I lose an important e-mail :)

I have a few accounts lying around which I don't really use for anything important, but which seem to get a ton of spam - those are the sort that I'm looking for, really - though the Holy Grail would be to find people with 'normal' accounts, which receive a mixture of spam and legit e-mail, who're willing to help out :)

I'll need to throw a few thousand e-mails at it - basically the more the better - and will probably test/fiddle for upto a week (though of course if it's being really bumpy and you need your e-mail account back, you can :))

Thanks to anyone who is able and willing to help out...I'll think of a thank you :)

[Kell_ee001]

I've just got a hotmail account for all my spam - don't think that'll be much help :(

[Beansprout]

Hmm, Gmail can forward on e-mail but I'm not sure if Hotmail will..same here :(

Edit: Hmm, we reckon that forwarded e-mail might not work - since Spamassassin wouldn't recognise it as spam due to the altered headers/source. That said, SA is only one tool in my arsenal - I have some which auto-learn about spam from e-mail content - so it's worth a shot I reckon :)

[Kell_ee001]

If Gmail will work, how about setting one up just for this?

[Beansprout]

Ah I have a gMail account but it doesn't really get that much spam. I'll be using it, though :)

[Kell_ee001]

Meant we could set one up especially, sign it up to loads of crap and it won't matter what gets deleted :)

[Beansprout]

Meant we could set one up especially, sign it up to loads of crap and it won't matter what gets deleted :)
Genius :D

Group spammage! I knew BD was into 'group stuff' ;)

My Hotmail account is still besieged from years ago when it was victim to a game among me and my friends....I think they still get more than me, though :D

[Kell_ee001]

Email - boat.drinks.spam@googlemail.com

Everyone can sign it up to anything :)

Sent you details via PM to redirect as required :)

[Beansprout]

And just incase forwarded e-mail doesn't work (or doesn't work as well as we hope), spam@twobeds.com can also be used :)

[Stan_Lite]

I have an account I set up for my dad a while back that he never used, only thing is, all it really gets is spam but I could always forward a copy of everything from my main account to it - that way it would get all my legitimate mail plus the spam from both accounts.

I was going to delete that account anyway but I can keep it open for the time being to help you out.

Let me know if you can use the account.

Stan :)

[Beansprout]

Thanks :)

I should be starting my fiddling tomorrow afternoon (need to get the srever setup first), so I'll get in touch :)

[Mark]

My other place email gets spammed to death and I very rarely get much of importance in it, so that's an option.

[Daz]

otacon@dwuk.net would be a good one to use if you're not already. Wouldn't mind you using daz@ either tbh.

[Feek]

I need spam sending to one of my accounts so I can get some more learning done.

Sign up spam@feek.co.uk to whatever's likely to generate spam please :)

[Beansprout]

oo, will do :)

Also incase anyone's interested...my new anti-spam system is being setup this weekend and it's going to rock :)

[Mark]

Careful with redirecting your spam email address - that has legit email mixed in (however little legit email that is).

He's got all the catch-all accounts from my various domains. Guaranteed 100% bona fide spam (well, unless someone misspells my email address, and then I wouldn't read it anyway). That'll bring in just a few. :)

[Beansprout]

Aye :)

[Daz]

Also incase anyone's interested...my new anti-spam system is being setup this weekend and it's going to rock :)
I hope so :) Spamassasin has done pretty well, but the past couple of weeks have been mental. This week in particular has been pretty awful :/

[Feek]

Careful with redirecting your spam email address - that has legit email mixed in (however little legit email that is).

Aye, the last thing I want is the chance that there could be legit stuff in there, I just want blanket spam that I can dump into the spam learning folder without having to check it.

[Burble]

This week in particular has been pretty awful :/

Unfortunately so. I'm going to shove all my emails through the anti spam filters at work which should help a bit.

[Beansprout]

I hope so :) Spamassasin has done pretty well, but the past couple of weeks have been mental. This week in particular has been pretty awful :/
Aye :/

I think I was deleting spam e-mails every 5 minutes yesterday :s

Piping all this through to the new system and it's not missing many :)

[Mark]

My spam catcher has been as good as ever (it'll miss the odd one or two now and then, but it's better than most). Well worth the $2.99/mo (discounted for life 'early adopter' rate). :)

[Kell_ee001]

I need spam

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