Suddenly Apple Mail is blocking email sent to myself/my email address

Thanks so much Mr. Hoffmann I really appreciate all your expertise, helpful responses and explanations, and al your info. I’m so frustrated, I better give up and not hold my breath for help or resolution from Microsoft to resolve it.

Hassle: From now on whenever I want to bc or cc myself on an email or send an email to myself, I will have to remember to go into settings, turn my wifi off, use cellular data, and then send the email. WHAT A HASSLE!

Thank you Mr. Hoffman, I appreciate your response. Forgive my ignorance, but can you tell me how to do that? I don’t even use iCloud (except for what Apple does automatically).

I’m also going back to my Microsoft Support case number/ticket (they just said contact Apple it’s Apple problem) because my email account address is an msn account, and something must be amiss with the email server — which is what you say too!

BTW Mr. Hoffman your response makes sense (email getting caught up in a bunch of spam (not mine)) to my non technical brain (legal brain and logic brain but not techie brain!) because this is weird: If I turn off WIFI, and use cellular, a message to myself will send ok maybe once or twice, but not with WIFI on. This is crazy. And it just started few days ago. Never in years had this problem. SO FRUSTRATED!

I appreciate your help. I’m determined to fix this!!!

Thanks! I really appreciate ALL your info and time and heIp and surprise I actually DO understand that babble. Because having an msn email account for a zillion years, and long go on my original very first they ever made iPhone (2007 the FIRST ONE) it was not easy to get msn email. So over the years I’ve learned about POP an IMAP accounts, etc. But that’s all history. Apple iPhones and iPads make it easy to set up an “other” email account. When I added it to the ipad few years ago, the Apple techies were amazed at my info I brought in. But I had learned through the years about making sure email account is set up with exact proper configurations.

Be that as it may, twice I did delete the account and re add it, hoping praying that would fix it!, but nope sadly it did not.

I wish I didn’t have the legal analysis to sawdust brain that makes me determined to resolve this. Something happened out of my control or doing the other day, others are also having problem, some relief that it’s not just me.

From Microsoft, another unhelpful frustrating form (paragraphs are always the same) response. He’s missing the entire 550 SPAM error message filtering Issue.

“Thank you for responding back.  

We appreciate your patience throughout the conversation.

If I were in your position, I would feel the same way. 

We appreciate your efforts in sharing with us further update on the issue as requested.

As you have confirmed that when you send test email to self then you receive it when using different Wi-Fi address however when you send test email to self-using own home Wi-Fi then you get the error message so it is evident that issue is with internet so contact you internet service provider to fix your home Wi-Fi issue.

Again, we appreciate your patience, efforts and cooperation on this matter. I hope everything goes well. 

Stay healthy and stay safe.

Have a great day!”

And Netgear tech support guaranteed a call back to me 6 hours ago. Never called.

ughhhhhhhh......

Thank you very much. I really appreciate your information and help with options.

Microsoft Support escalates the ticket/case/issue to a level 2 (?).

This 550 error block will sometime “age out”? Hope springs eternal!

I thought of changing my IP address, but yikes I don’t want to cause more problems.

I’d gladly pay for email if I could keep my same email address.

It’s the same issue. Not resolved. Using outlook configured on Apple devices, cannot send email to yourself address. Apple said it’s Microsoft problem. Frustrated efforts with Microsoft Support insists its Apple issue to resolve.

worked fine for years, now spam filter blocks email to and from same address.

Thank you! I sent Microsoft the undeliverable email showing the errors and SMPT locations. Hope that helps them!