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lsb Author

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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 1:37 PM in response to lsb

This post is in the wrong discussions section in my opinion. Just fyi. May want to link to it from the proper spot.

Mar 7, 2013 3:01 PM in response to lsb

I have been receiving this message all day. "Problem During Delivery Processing". I receive an email and, at the same time, I receive a separate email with this error message. It would be nice to receive an email from Apple telling us there is a problem and that they are working on a solution.

abf007

Level 1

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Mar 7, 2013 3:02 PM in response to TonyElTigre

I'm having the same problem starting today at around the same time early morning...called apple support they didn't know what's going on. Wanted to charge me for Apple support. Is their problem on their servers they need to fix it. It's annoying. If find a solution let me know.

abf007

Level 1

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Mar 7, 2013 3:04 PM in response to jacksontx

There's a lot of people experimenting this error. Is not a hardware problem. Apple needs to fix it on their part

5redcars

Level 1

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Mar 7, 2013 3:06 PM in response to lsb

the status page now says there is a problem "Mail - Less than 0.05% users affected

Users with iOS 5 devices may not receive push mail notifications and may see delivery error messages in their inbox. Sending and receiving email messages is working normally. Expected Resolution: 3/8/2013 1:00 AM"

Mar 7, 2013 3:07 PM in response to lsb

Apple Systems Status Page Shows:

Mail - Less than 0.05% users affected

AQX

Level 1

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Mar 7, 2013 3:16 PM in response to lsb

Is there any hope of ridding ourselves from this nuisance?

Pekkik

Level 1

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Mar 7, 2013 3:33 PM in response to lsb

As one of the 0.05% affected users, I sure am 100% frustrated.

bheliker

Level 1

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Mar 7, 2013 4:26 PM in response to Pekkik

Glad to know they're working on it. It isn't that big a deal: with threading turned on, they all fall into a single thread which I can ignore and then delete as a whole once in a while. The most frustrating thing is that it was impossible to report to Apple. There is no support mechanism for iCloud failures, it seems. (Is there an iCloud serial number?)

Feb 16, 2014 1:03 PM in response to lsb

I am getting these eMails today whenever anybody sends me an eMail message to my iCloud account. I can't find anything about it happening today 2/16/2014. Each eMail message to me (just the iCloud address) generates 4 error eMail messages. I hope that this can be resolved like I think it was last March. Today is the first time I ever heard of this problem.

Thanks,

Dave

Mail Error: Reason: Error in sieve filter