This morning I took a look at the spam I received overnight.

[pitrh@mastodon.social]

@stefano This is very close to what I experience too. Looking at the spam that reaches an inbox here, it is very rare to find any that did not come from MSFT or GOOG infrastructure.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

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[pitrh@mastodon.social]

@stefano also GOOG has some odd ideas about what it considers spam.

I had a problem reaching GOOG hosted domains from my regular address -- my messages consistently went to the spam folder or just disappeared.

Then it turned out that the problem was my .signature had a reference to blogspot.com -- a GOOG hosted domain, which for some reason had made it onto one of the spamhaus badness lists, leading to a reject when trying to post to a mailing list for that reason.

[pitrh@mastodon.social]

@stefano so we had GOOG content filtering rejecting mail over a reference to a GOOG hosted service.

I have since sanitized my .signature, which seems to help, but I still randomly get my messages to GOOG hosted domain spamboxed.

Never any reason given or response to queries, of course.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

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[joel@gts.tumfatig.net]

@pitrh @stefano even spammers don’t know how to setup an SMTP server these days 🤭

[paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org]

@joel @pitrh @stefano

Vibe spamming is in.

[xinqu@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano I simply block everything from gmail, except a handful of whitelisted addresses of people I know.

This is not a solution if you are running a mailserver for more users than just your family, of course. But works very well for me.

[seiz@mastodon.social]

@stefano looking at my Spam, Amazon/AWS seems to also be used a lot to relay Spam.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

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