Re: Submitting bulk spam to spamcop

Garen Erdoisa wrote:
> 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

Thanks - who would I contact about that. I don't plan on sending the 
full 2 million but more like a few thousand a day.