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Binarus
Asked: 2016-08-17 09:46:29 +0800 CST

Spam emails for download?

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Is there a place where I could download as much spam emails as possible, having been sent from as much different worldwide locations as possible?

To clarify: I am not after databases which contain hashes of spam emails or which contain IP addresses of senders / networks which have sent spam. I am just interested in getting hold of as much real spam emails as possible in unaltered form.

For example, this could be a giant mbox file containing thousands or millions of such emails in their original state. Are there some anti-spam organizations or companies who provide access to such data?

UPDATE:

Not being a native English speaker, I just didn't know the right keywords. Just search for "spam corpus" or "spam corpora" on Google. Hoping that this helps others with the same problem and hoping that now there's no reason to downvote any more ...

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    I thought SpamAssassin maintained a download of SPAM/HAM called a corpus. But you really want to use your own emails to train. Otherwise you'll be training your filters with antiquated email.

    UPDATE: It appears that SpamAssassin is now using submitted corpora. But there are plenty of public ones:

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