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"Trick" email address

Last post 07-02-2009 2:10 PM by tg101. 2 replies.
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  • 06-19-2009 3:16 PM

    • tg101
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    "Trick" email address

    Does SM have a "trick" address feature? (I'm not really sure what it's technically called).

    But I saw the feature available for some other mail server product I think a long time ago.

    It works like so:

    An email address is posted on a page in such a way that only an email harvesting expedition should cause it to be used and therefore any emails that go to the address are taken and added to a black list of some sort. I don't remember if it's by IP or return path..

     

  • 06-19-2009 8:19 PM In reply to

    Re: "Trick" email address

    Its called a honeypot or spamtrap email address.  This is not available with the current version at the moment

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  • 07-02-2009 2:10 PM In reply to

    • tg101
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    • Joined on 05-08-2007
    • Posts 33

    Re: "Trick" email address

    Does anyone know if this is a feature that will be added? Seems like it could be slightly useful. I'm not sure how common the type of harvesting that would bring this up is though.

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