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Level 1

9 points

Reason: Error in sieve filter: Unknown function/variable found: church around input line 79 [ stop; } require " f^ileinto"; if header ]

My wife's email has been getting filled with hundereds of emails with this in them this morning. I don't see where anyone else is having this problem today, but I wanted to see if it's on iCloud's end or ours.

Processing errors occurred during delivery:

Recipient address: xxx@me.com

Delivery processing continued in spite of these errors.

Reporting-MTA: dns;ms21034.mac.com (tcp_intranet-daemon)

Arrival-date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:33:18 +0000 (GMT)

Posted on Mar 13, 2012 3:47 AM

21 replies

Mar 7, 2013 1:44 PM in response to David Toub

Don't believe it has anything to do with spam. One account has had problems with every legit email today, another account has had no problems at all.

SLYTLE Author

Level 1

9 points

Mar 7, 2013 2:10 PM in response to John Dotson

It's not spam, it's spam filters that are not configured properly. They're sending out messages because the filters think there is something wrong with the email.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language)

It will clear up once Apple figures out where in the filter the error is coming from and reconfigure it.

markA9

Level 1

5 points

Mar 7, 2013 2:52 PM in response to SLYTLE

Thank you. At least that's encouraging to know that Apple is aware of this. (They are, aren't they?) I always make matters worse when I start fiddling with settings, etc.

Lauren R

Level 3

875 points

Mar 7, 2013 3:36 PM in response to SLYTLE

I too am receiving the same error message sent to me with every single email addressed to my "me.com" address!

markA9

Level 1

5 points

Mar 7, 2013 3:39 PM in response to Lauren R

Curious that it hasn't been corrected yet? Must be something serious, I'm thinking.

Lauren R

Level 3

875 points

Mar 7, 2013 3:44 PM in response to markA9

This is happening, I think, to many, many people. Its all over the net. Just google "icloud mail delivery errors" to see the results!

Reason: Error in sieve filter: Unknown function/variable found: church around input line 79 [ stop; } require " f^ileinto"; if header ]