My mail server occasionally receives mail from residential ISPs and it's literally always spam.
If people could be trusted to manage their mail server we wouldn't have this problem, but IoT crapware is still listening on port 23 till this very day and the manuals still state that you need to disable the firewall and forward all traffic to your shitty webcam for it to work. Reporting this abuse to the carrying ISPs is about as useless as shouting my complaints down the toilet.
Until both IoT production companies and individual consumers take responsibility for the awful internet created by these maliciously incompetent users and the laughably bad IoT devices they buy, I'm not removing this filter rule from my mail server.
I do usually get a notification that something hit quarantine so if it sounds important I can still see it, but I've never had to release mail banned for this reason so far.
Denylisting whole ip ranges is lazy and hurtful. Google accepts email from residential ips. Why can't you?
> My mail server occasionally receives mail from residential ISPs and it's literally always spam.
I sent mail from my home isp for years, until people like you made unfeasible.
> I do usually get a notification that something hit quarantine so if it sounds important I can still see it, but I've never had to release mail banned for this reason so far.
Most small operators refused to allowlist me even after making phone calls, etc.
> Google accepts email from residential ips. Why can't you?
Because Google receives enough email to tweak its spam filters sufficiently. I have to rely on more general block lists.
> I sent mail from my home isp for years, until people like you made unfeasible.
I've accepted mail from home ISPs for years but a recent-ish (±5 years ago) but short wave of spam from botnets made me turn on the spam filter on my new server.
> Most small operators refused to allowlist me even after making phone calls, etc.
With my setup you won't even have to call me because I'll probably whitelist your server anyway. May take a day depending on how recent the latest quarantine report was, but that's no different from normal email anyway. My spam threshold is quite high so if you take the normal measures (SPF/DKIM/reverse PTR/etc.) you probably won't even hit the spam filter.
If people could be trusted to manage their mail server we wouldn't have this problem, but IoT crapware is still listening on port 23 till this very day and the manuals still state that you need to disable the firewall and forward all traffic to your shitty webcam for it to work. Reporting this abuse to the carrying ISPs is about as useless as shouting my complaints down the toilet.
Until both IoT production companies and individual consumers take responsibility for the awful internet created by these maliciously incompetent users and the laughably bad IoT devices they buy, I'm not removing this filter rule from my mail server.
I do usually get a notification that something hit quarantine so if it sounds important I can still see it, but I've never had to release mail banned for this reason so far.