Host a tor relay. I run two and put my email up as the maintainer and now I consistently get over 200 messages a day (I've since shut down my private mail server it was so bad).
I run four Tor relays and don't get spammed. I also obfuscate my email by formatting it in a readable, non-standard way that can't be spammed automatically without parsing (eg someone [at] example dot com).
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I actually did exactly that.
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#42Spam training set: http://untroubled.org/spam/ More good ones here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4743996/publicly-availabl...
Hopping on the top comment to provide a more serious answer than some below.. http://www.mailbait.info/
Mailbait looks helpful for a project of mine, thank you for sharing!
I used GenSpam [1] for my thesis on spam filtering, but it doesn't seem to be as comprehensive as others out there, plus using a corpus instead of 'live' email might not be quite what the original poster wants.
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#44Project Honey Pot (www.projecthoneypot.org) can provide you a feed.
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#45Publish your spambox addresses as html comment in as many sites as you can, then wait for some days and you will start receiving unsolicited messages.
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#47JMeter has an SMTP mode, simply point it at your smtp server and configure how many emails you want to send.
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#48Host a tor relay. I run two and put my email up as the maintainer and now I consistently get over 200 messages a day (I've since shut down my private mail server it was so bad).
You kind of guys are still the hope for humanity. I do not understand all the technology completely. But i get the gist for what you are doing. Than you very much.
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#49speedrookie2321@hotmail.com
this needs some spam as much as possible. Thanks
Stress testing something
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#50speedrookie2321@hotmail.com