Re: Submitting bulk spam to spamcop

Marc Perkel wrote:
> Let me be more specific. I bounce over 2 million spams a day. Most of it 
> is junk that everyone would bounce but some of it would be very useful 
> to spamcop in learning new sources of spam and to find net sources for 
> the URI list in particular. So what I need to do is fork off a copt 
> automatically to some spamcop email address to receive this spam.
> 
> So - I set up an account and I tried forwarding email to it and it 
> started complaining that the email wasn't in the right format.
> 
> So what I need to be able to do is find a way to forward the email 
> stream to a spamcop account.
> 
> How do I do that?

For that volume of email I would talk directly with the spamcop 
administrators about setting up a generic spam feed address for your 
ISP. You and they can work out the details.

If it were me doing this, I would probably just drop it into a local 
account and let spamcop fetchmail it down at their leisure. That way 
they would be able to throttle the feed.

SpamBouncer can do this, but probably wouldn't scale well to handle 2 
million spams per day unless you have some really beefy servers to 
handle the load. It's GNU, so you could probably study how it's done 
there and adapt some of the techniques used and procmail scripts to your 
own use.

I believe SpamAssassin can also do this (with a plugin), but doubt that 
it would scale well to handle 2 million/day feed.

I think that the best solution in your particular case is to work out a 
deal with the spamcop admins.

--
Garen