Accept all incoming email, send messages from multiple identities

Question

I am working on a research project that has to do with responding to spam. I want to implement the following functionality: 1. A mail server that saves all incoming email messages in an easily accessable form - hard drive, database, etc. For example, if someone sends a message to [email protected] or [email protected], this message should be accepted and saved. 2. I should be able to reply to these messages from the same server/account. E.g. a message gets delivered to [email protected], so the spammer receives a response from the same address.

Any suggestions on any software / packages that can help me with that? If I can interface with them with Java or Python, it would be even better.

Thanks.

Answer 1

you could run a postfix mailserver with fuglu,a python framework for mail filters. it would be very simple to write a plugin that does what you want.

but remember: responding to spam is in most cases a bad idea. the sender address is almost always forged, so the reply goes some innocent victim instead of the spammers inbox and your server could be blacklisted for backscattering.