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I honestly don't think they are nefarious, just overly insistent.
I remember email before Gmail's spam filters. Everyday was a task of deleting spam first then responding to emails.
Email is not the same it has been for years/decades. These days you need to use all the security tools available, most notably TLS and DKIM, set a strict DMARC policy, and don't do anything unexpected such as sending lots of emails out of the blue. Email is all about reputation: it can take a lot of effort to build trust, but just one bad move and it's all gone.
Is it though? That may well be true for small individuals, but the Spam I get these days comes via the large mail providers, Amazon SES, sendgrid etc, and nobody in their right mind is going to block them. "Too big to block" is a thing now, "too big to have to care about abuse reports" is too.
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-google-and-microsoft-made...
..and I reference the Hostile E-mail Landscape blog post by Ribton (really good btw).. which is gone now and redirects to some bullshit software site (there are archives of it).
I've got DKIM, SPF, DMARC, reverse DNS for IPv4 and v6 and I still don't have the volume to show up in the postmaster tools Google has.
My own e-mail server occasionally has spam come through. I really don't care. I sometimes mark it to be learned, but honestly I'd rather have some SPAM get through than get HAM marked and placed in the big fucking SPAM bucket I never check.
But for big providers and dangers like ransomware, this isn't an option. So we have shitty unreliable e-mail (even on gmail back in 2012; I had delivery issues to other people on gmail).
Where does the blame go? The 1% of people who give scammers money, get ransomware infections and click on everything? Over aggressive spam filters? The lack of real e-mail server diversity? Who the fuck knows anymore.
I used the smtp server of my ISP. I'm know that it is tightly monitored and not the source of any significant amount of real spam.
Gonna second whoever said: Use DKIM. I actually check Spam daily now, after finding support emails whose logs got snagged in the dragnet & personal stuff — even email from my Dad got shunted to Spam. I still tip the hat, though, to Google, whose algorithms are wise enough to assiduously stow both the “jump on a call” and “donate to my campaign” emails to spam.
If you're really curious setup DMARC as well and check out the reports. I used to work for a company that did DMARC analytics, and after setting it up for my personal domain it's kind of interesting to see who's trying to impersonate you (or who's getting spam purportedly from you).
Google/Microsoft don't send DMARC reports because it would make it easier for spammers to know they had gotten past those filters. It's easier to just drop everything they don't like silently. It's why e-mail is terribly unreliable today (much more reliable if you DO NOT use Microsoft or Google).
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"Moving to Fastmail" is such a popular alternative that if they ever get to any kind of reasonable size we'll be in the same position all over again. That should not be the suggestion. Many smaller providers encourages the competition necessary for an open network, not a small number of huge providers.
I've been using Fastmail for about 5 or 6 years now. My only problem is the 1GB mailbox size limit I have. Maybe I should upgrade. Otherwise I love it. Their webmail client is phenomenal and works with mobile and desktop. I don't like their Android app but I haven't tried it in a year. Their web client is so good I don't need an app for them. I do see mail going to spam though. It's never bugged me that much.
OP already received a decent reply, > A quick look at Talos Intelligence reports a 1600% increase in email from your domain over the last day; email reputation os 'neutral' at this time. Not good, not bad, but neutral. > Also you're on OVH, about which a quick look through the list's archives will possibly prove instructive. It's reasonably likely (as likely as not) that you're running on an IP in a neighbourhood wit…
It's simply one of those things one has to deal with if one operates an email server.
Email is not the same it has been for years/decades. These days you need to use all the security tools available, most notably TLS and DKIM, set a strict DMARC policy, and don't do anything unexpected such as sending lots of emails out of the blue. Email is all about reputation: it can take a lot of effort to build trust, but just one bad move and it's all gone.
> Email is all about reputation: it can take a lot of effort to build trust, but just one bad move and it's all gone. Is it though? That may well be true for small individuals, but the Spam I get these days comes via the large mail providers, Amazon SES, sendgrid etc, and nobody in their right mind is going to block them. "Too big to block" is a thing now, "too big to have to care about abuse reports" is too.
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but it's not expensive. there are other free email services, or you can pay for decent email hosting for a few bucks a month.
Could you post examples? In my opinion free email services either belong to other big corporations or provide lower quality service than gmail. Few bucks a month add up and can be considered expensive by many. I don’t like google and I pay for a different email account. I just wanted to remind that gmail may be hard to quit and that costs are subjective.
I pay around 3$/month for Fastmail, I don't think it's expensive, an email address is the primary communication method everyone uses nowadays and it's useful every day.