Junk

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Junk

Why does my email periodically end up in junk--both my junk and the recipients' junk? This problem occurs from time to time. I use both iCloud.com and also the Mail program. It happens with one or the other and I can't seem to remember which one is the culprit! Maybe they alternate to give me trouble? I have had to alert my recipients to check their junk but I have a hard enough time to remember to look there so I don't blame them for not looking. My Mac is running OS Monterey version 12.01.

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iMac 21.5″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Nov 13, 2021 5:06 AM

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BDAqua

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Nov 13, 2021 8:40 AM in response to Bakhtin

We ned to find out if it's the server marking them junk or your Mac.

To see if it's your provider, What's my ip...

http://www.whatismyipaddress.com/

Start with these three, check SpamCop or SpamHaus to see if your IP is there...

http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml

http://www.spamhaus.org/lookup.lasso

http://www.spamhaus.org/zen/

Sometimes an ISP will bloc a whole other ISP too, if it's the source of too much SPAM.

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Bakhtin Author

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Nov 14, 2021 4:25 AM in response to BDAqua

I learned my iCloud address is blocked from this IP address by one of those servers, so is there anything I can do to unblock it? If I send mail from a different computer will it get blocked too? What's odd is that my mail is only blocked sometimes, not all the time. Do I need to start using a different email address like gmail or charter?

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Bakhtin Author

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Nov 14, 2021 5:13 AM in response to Bakhtin

Regarding my blocked IP as mentioned above: I just learned about Apple Private Relay that hides IP addresses so I turned that on. Hope it solves my problem but I won't know for sure because this is an intermediate issue. Private Relay is a beta thing so is there any reason I should be suspicious about it? Will it cause other unforeseen problems down the road?

Thanks,

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Bakhtin Author

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Nov 14, 2021 5:16 AM in response to Bakhtin

Already it seems to be working because I tried to check my IP on Whatismyip but the site couldn't open it! So that's good I guess unless I lose access to too many sites.

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