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lsb Author

Level 1

134 points

Mail Error: Reason: Error in sieve filter

Hello,

Yesterday I started to receive this strange email error for every message that I send from one of my iCloud accounts (all others seem to be functioning fine). Does anyone have any idea what might be happening? I have done a search and nothing really comes up. I think the system is suggesting that the @me.com account is not valid, but it clearly is.

Many thanks!

ERROR MESSAGE

Message-id:

<5D56EF844AC57D49989CB3CE9DB70D8B0B34679C@EX14MBX1A.>

Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:40:38 +0000

From:

To: address@me.com>

Subject: RE: Re:

Processing errors occurred during delivery:

Recipient address: address@me.com

Reason: Error in sieve filter: Notify mailto: recipient is not a valid address

Delivery processing continued in spite of these errors.

Reporting-MTA: dns;ms03531.mac.com (tcp_intranet-daemon)

Arrival-date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:40:40 +0000 (GMT)

Original-recipient: rfc822;address@me.com

Final-recipient: rfc822;address@me.com

Action: delivered

Status: 2.0.0

(Error in sieve filter: Notify mailto: recipient is not a valid address)

iMac, Mac OS X (10.3.x)

Posted on Mar 7, 2013 1:40 AM

55 replies

fangler

Level 1

0 points

Mar 7, 2013 3:20 AM in response to lsb

Ditto - problem started occuring around 10.30am UK time today.

ilium78

Level 1

21 points

Mar 7, 2013 3:58 AM in response to fangler

Nuh - thats it for me. Turning off my GMail forwarder and ditching iCloud. Started off as a mac.com paid member about ten years ago and enough is enough. Sending and receiving email is a fundamental requirement these days. One can only wonder why Apple choose Oracle as their back end mail provider - this is insane. It's email for crying out loud !!

Jun 22, 2018 1:13 AM in response to lsb

I've got the same problem. And it's weird I can get both the error and the mail.

isin

Level 1

0 points

Mar 7, 2013 5:05 AM in response to lsb

Same Here. Who should I notify?

RTONLINE

Level 1

15 points

Mar 7, 2013 5:26 AM in response to timvans

I have deleted all email accounts (me.com and gmail) from iMac, Ipad and iPhone.

I then set up the me.com email account on all three devices.

Nothing changed - still get an email followed by another email from

postmaster@mac.com

Problem during delivery processing

Reason: Error in sieve filter: Notify mailto: recipient is not a valid address

Action: delivered

Status: 2.0.0

(Error in sieve filter: Notify mailto: recipient is not a valid address).

If Apple goes on like this, I will go and get a nice large Android Phone !

5redcars

Level 1

0 points

Mar 7, 2013 5:54 AM in response to RTONLINE

Since this error, I do no get twitter emails I'm my me.com. A coincides??? anyone else...

RTONLINE

Level 1

15 points

Mar 7, 2013 6:27 AM in response to RTONLINE

My Wife and I both have an Ipad and an iPhone, I use an iMac and my wife a MacBook Pro.

I have this problem with all my devices.

My wife has NOT got this problem.

We both use a ...@me.com email acount.

Just compared the settings:

For "Incoming server" I have p03-imap.mail.me.com

My Wife has p02-imap.mail.me.com .... and has not got this problem.

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I have setup a new rule for incoming mails (for the meantime):

move all incoming emails from postmaster@mac.com to trash and delete it.

Works fine for now,......until APPLE deals with the problem.

Message was edited by: RTONLINE

Mar 7, 2013 7:19 AM in response to lsb

WE are getting this error on each email received on our 4s iPad but not on our iPad 4.

5redcars

Level 1

0 points

Mar 7, 2013 7:22 AM in response to lsb

I m getting the email on all the divices iphone 5 imac 10.8.2 and ipad 2..

Mar 7, 2013 8:07 AM in response to timvans

Same here. Apple fix this quickly please! How come it is taking hours to fix a problem affecting ALL emails we receive??

jroe001

Level 1

0 points

Mar 7, 2013 8:25 AM in response to lsb

I am having the same issue, annoying!!!!!

musser

Level 1

0 points

Mar 7, 2013 9:26 AM in response to lsb

Same **** thing for me. Pathetic. Incredibly irritating!

Mar 7, 2013 9:40 AM in response to lsb

I too have seen the issues on all of my accounts and aliases as well.

ann1110

Level 1

8 points

Mar 7, 2013 9:49 AM in response to lsb

Happening to my mac.com address as well, starting at 3:19am Pacific Time.

bheliker

Level 1

0 points

Mar 7, 2013 9:52 AM in response to lsb

Same issue here.

I also enjoy that you can go to Apple's support site, click "iCloud", click "Topic not listed" and all the solutions presented require you to enter a serial number. Is there a serial number for iCloud support? haha. I liked the service better when I paid for it... at least then I could legitimately complain.

Mail Error: Reason: Error in sieve filter