An anonymous reader writes "I have my own domain, which has its own email server, which is where I receive
all my personal email. My volume of spam is enormous, at least by my standards:
I get about 800 emails a day, of which
perhaps 20 are real. Or, I should say, I was getting about 800 emails a day,
because suddenly, Sunday or Monday evening, the spam
pretty much stopped. My volume of
mail has plummeted to less than 100 emails a day, and as far as I can
tell, I'm not missing any real mail — I'm still getting the email list
subscriptions I'm expecting to get, etc., and every time I ask someone to
send me a test message, or I send a message to myself from a different
address, it gets through.
My domain hoster insists that it doesn't do any spam filtering before mail gets to my inbox,
and they insist they've changed nothing about their configuration. I run
SpamAssassin on my server to mark, but not delete, spam, and download
the whole mess to my home client, and I'm still seeing the occasional message
tagged by SpamAssassin, but it's virtually all gone. And I haven't changed anything
about my own mail configuration, or the harvestability of my personal email
address from my site.
So what's going on? I can't believe that a major botnet would have vanished overnight, nor
can I believe that it would make much difference — my personal email has
been harvestable for almost a decade, and it must be on the list of
every spammer known to man. Any ideas?"
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"My domain host insists that it doesn't do any spam filtering before mail gets to my inbox"
Have you considered you domain host is not telling you the true, they are erasing obvious spam, they are just trying to save the space on theirs disks (even if it does not apply to you, it might as well been a rule applied to all email)
Getting similar results on my domain - using SpamFighter, but suddenly, couple of hundred a day have fallen off to less than a dozen spams, for the last week. Was about to post, wondering whether SpamFighter might be artificially increasing amount received-but-blocked (so as to make it seem more valuable) - but spam is suddenly down 90%. I don't think BSing about the Russian mafia cuts it - the cyber attacks vs Georgia went on for weeks before the shooting started... the spam dropoff is more recent.
host is not telling you the true ??? (Score:1)
Have you considered you domain host is not telling you the true, they are erasing obvious spam, they are just trying to save the space on theirs disks (even if it does not apply to you, it might as well been a rule applied to all email)
Where Has All My Spam Gone? (Score:1)