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by domlaut 1569 days ago
Clever! Are you running your own email server, or is there a provider/relay other than Google that can route based on regexes?
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My own server, since 2001. Regex part since about 2003. It has been very effective, and still is.

The most effective thing back in the day was blocking based on TCP fingerprint, as "Windows XP" was different from "Windows 2003" IIRC (with OpenBSD PF). After that, greylisting gave me a few SPAM-free years, before it became the norm (OpenBSD spamd). Many OpenBSD users had quite a few SPAM-free years back then.

<Insert standard "how are you not being blocked by everyone?!?!" here>

(Genuinely curious - particularly with M$)

The OSS https://forwardemail.net can route based on regex