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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

Mar 7, 2013 10:07 AM in response to lsb

Add me to the list, since yesterday. Both my .mac and .me accounts are doing it on all received emails.

I found http://9to5mac.com/2013/03/07/growing-number-of-icloud-users-experiencing-mail-d elivery-errors/ but it doesn't list a fix or very much information, other than it's happening to a bunch of us. Comforting to know it's not just me... 🙂

CB68

Level 1

0 points

Mar 7, 2013 10:25 AM in response to lsb

Yep me too. On my me.com account on all emails received - iPad 3 and iPhone 3GS.

veryo

Level 1

0 points

Mar 7, 2013 10:44 AM in response to lsb

i have spent the day trying to reach someone at apple about this. it started for me at midnight. every email coming in has an internet mail delivery problem.

i finally reached someone and they had no idea what i was talking about... apple service is just awlful.

and here it is all over the web.

pomank

Level 1

0 points

Mar 7, 2013 10:48 AM in response to lsb

Same here, @me.com email delivery error every incoming email.

Mar 7, 2013 11:03 AM in response to lsb

Same problem started 7Mar13 AM.

timvans

Level 1

4 points

Mar 7, 2013 11:06 AM in response to lsb

I told 9to5mac.com and they've posted this issue as a story, so maybe Apple might look into this now. I have 143 error emails today. http://9to5mac.com/2013/03/07/growing-number-of-icloud-users-experiencing-mail-d elivery-errors/

aslam

Level 1

14 points

Mar 7, 2013 11:13 AM in response to lsb

Me too. Apple's system status page doesn't show any problems as of this moment. Hope there's a fix soon.

Skiboot

Level 1

0 points

Mar 7, 2013 11:14 AM in response to lsb

I have the same problem with every @mac.com and @me.com mail I receive, driving me crazy. Apple update your system status page, you have some issues...

Pekkik

Level 1

0 points

Mar 7, 2013 11:22 AM in response to lsb

Same problem here, since this morning I am getting 'spammed' bij the postmaster@mac.com.

Apple, do something. Quick!

Mar 7, 2013 11:23 AM in response to lsb

Same issue here with my @mac.com account.

Mar 7, 2013 11:25 AM in response to lsb

It's most certainly an issue at Apple. iCloud.com is also exhibiting the error immediately after I send a test message to my .mac accounts.

I think we'll have to just wait and see what happens. I'm sure that Apple is aware. I sent a message already to them, but would be nice for an acknowledgment either on Status page or whereever that the problem is being investigated.