UncleEbenezer wrote:mc2fool wrote:You said elsewhere "I have disabled the spam checker for now" and depending on which global database it checks that may be (at least part of) the issue, as just about everybody's IP address is on at least the Spamhaus Policy Block List (PBL), as people are not supposed to send out emails directly from their IP but should do so via an outgoing server that they have been authenticated to use.
So anyone running an outgoing email server from their IP is automatically assumed to be a spammer, and the address ranges that ISPs allocate are supplied to Spamhaus for the PBL by the ISPs (BT, Talktalk, etc, etc) to catch that.
E.g. here is one for an address in the range(s) BT allocates to customers: https://check.spamhaus.org/listed/?searchterm=86.128.1.1
Also see https://check.spamhaus.org/faqs/?id=what_is_the_policy_blocklist__pbl__ and https://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/
Different policies for different services. Yes, email is (most regrettably, but understandably) widely restricted as you describe. That doesn't apply to web browsing, where use of a proxy is not the norm unless Orwell's Big Brother is watching on your network.
Indeed, but Stooz said he'd "disabled the spam checker" and AFAIK there isn't any global database of IPs that "spam" bulletin boards, so if that checker was testing against IPs that were on anti-email-spam lists, and including the PBL, then that might explain why so many people were affected.