Submitting Spam

POP Approach for Submitting Spam

For spam submissions, we are moving to a POP approach because it is more secure and more scalable. In general, spam can be redirected or forwarded to an account on your system and we can pop those messages from there. If you have any clean spamtraps that you would like to share with us then we would pull those messages from a different pop account. (We treat clean spamtraps differently than user submitted spam.)

Anyone can switch to this method at any time. Our current policy is to ask anyone who will be providing any significant submissions to use the pop3 method. We will probably always have the ability to accept spam at out spam@ submission address.

The only instructions are that if you want to provide us with spam samples from user submissions or from your own spamtraps, please:

1. Set up a pop3 account on your system that our Trapbots can access.
2. Provide us with the email address (login info), password, and the host name of the pop3 server.
3. Tell us how the messages arrive at this address. For example, if you can provide "clean" spamtrap data that is purely from harvested email addresses then we would like to keep that separate from spam that is submitted by users or perhaps derived in some other way.
4. When in doubt it is always ok to submit spam to our spam@armresearch.com address.