Spam trap

A pristine trap was never used by a person, so mail to it shows the address was scraped or bought. A recycled trap is an old abandoned address that is later reused to catch senders who never clean their lists. Hitting one can lead to a listing.

No verifier can reliably identify traps. Prevent them with consent, verification and removing long-inactive contacts.

• Honeypot
• Blacklisting
• Email hygiene
• Email harvesting
• Verify a list
• Topic: Spam and blocklists
• Topic: Email deliverability
• All terms