I hate spam, i received since i created my first email account and i am always interested in web development tricks and techniques for protecting email accounts. Recently i read book about email security and found there very interesting technique which allows users to send email to you while proveiding email harvester with completely false email address, i created variation of this trick which i will share here as well.

First method requires, to create a new fail let’s call it my_false_email@not_exisiting.com, if you are unsure then: YES, file should be named like a valid email address, any UNIX system should handle such file. Next thing we need to do is add following lines in .htaccess file: Read more…