I do have a commonname@web.de and a *@mydomain catchall email addressed. Years ago I had my own email server on mydomain, but I got up to 30k spam per month whi

I do have a commonname@web.de and a *@mydomain catchall email addressed. Years ago I had my own email server on mydomain, but I got up to 30k spam per month which pushed me into abandoning my own email server and instead let Google be my MX, and forwarding the web.de mails to it. Google is very successful in rejecting spam before acknowledging its reception via SMTP (probably mostly via IP blacklist) so I don't see it, the amount of spam shrank drastically. For a very long time a lot of spam came via icq@mydomain (yes, it has been a while), but nowadays almost all spam that I see comes via the @web.de address where Google cannot apply its IP blacklist because its received via web.de's servers. I know because the mydomain email server also used to forward received mails to Google, resulting in said 30k entries in the spam folder. The transition to put Google itself in the DNS record made all the difference. I am kind-of surprised I don't see more spam coming via the catchall address. Sometimes spammers use mydomain with random local part as sender address, so I get bounces.