Spam from postmaster@mac.com

Hey There! I've found a very effective solution and I hope it helps some of you! I just started getting these in 2017! Copy the address listed in the email and save it as a contact. Select the address type as iCloud. Do the same for that pesky "postmaster@mac.com". Once saved go to Settings > FaceTime and scroll down to Blocked and add them to your blocked list!!!

Postmaster is apples own mail system bot controller mail overlord thing, it means you sent an email and it failed, or sent it to an email that doesn't exist. and endergamer3680, wouldn't hack iClouds mail controller if I were you. So... To recount, postmaster@mac.com is apple owned mail bot, he checks your emails and replies if it fails or the recipient doesn't exist.

Read this disccusion about it from apple them self

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204137

I'm getting this as well (my email address changed). It's very annoying and despite changing my apple password, it's still happening.

This report relates to a message you sent with the following header fields:

Message-id: <00127d3a.71fefab73ab41c30@user-PC>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:33:47 +0000 (GMT)
From: Katty <xxx@mac.com>
To: Tino123 <tino123@emaiol.it>
Subject: Mi auguro che non si preoccupa?

Your message has been enqueued and undeliverable for 1 day
to the following recipients:

Recipient address: tino123@emaiol.it
Reason: unable to deliver this message after 1 day

Delivery attempt history for your mail:

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:59:34 +0000 (GMT)
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Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:56:23 +0000 (GMT)
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Wed, 08 Oct 2014 04:53:12 +0000 (GMT)
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Wed, 08 Oct 2014 00:50:01 +0000 (GMT)
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Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:46:50 +0000 (GMT)
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Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:43:39 +0000 (GMT)
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Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:40:28 +0000 (GMT)
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Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:37:17 +0000 (GMT)
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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:33:47 +0000 (GMT)
From: Katty <xxx@mac.com>
Subject: Mi auguro che non si preoccupa?
To: Tino123 <tino123@emaiol.it>
Reply-to: ekaterina12lisu727@gmail.com
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Ciao!=20
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I'm lloking per un uomo buono. Se un interessante prego di scrivere. Il mio=
nome =C3=A8 Katty.=20
Postscript in attesa di vostra risposta.

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Same problem ...

When people receive emails which appear to come from their own address but they haven't sent they naturally tend to be concerned: however it's most unlikely that anyone has hacked their account, they've just been targeted by one of two common spammers' techniques: both arise because it's all too easy to forge the 'from' address on messages to be something other than the real one.

There are two things that can happen. One is that the sender has forged the 'from' address to be the same as the 'to' address (so other people will see it coming from themselves, not you), presumably in the hope of confusing spam filters. It's harmless, if extremely annoying. Delete it (never ever answer spam or try to unsubscribe from it), and you don't need to be worried about it.

The other problem, which seems to be the one affecting you, is that a spammer is forging your address as the 'from' address on a whole batch of messages. The first thing you hear about this is when you start getting bounce messages because the spam has been sent to non-existent addresses and is being bounced to you. There's no point at all in responding to it. It's infuriating but normally stops after a bit as they move on to another forged address.

There isn't really anything you can do about it: closing the account isn't really worth the hassle unless you are totally swamped, because you will have to tell everyone your new address. Apple can't really do any more than they already are about spam.

Thanks for the advice, but boy is it infuriating!

You could set up a Rule on icloud.com to move messsges from postmaster@mac.com to the Trash.

hei. wrote:

hey, I have the same problem. But I wonder if the email I would send arrive ?

Not sure I understand your question, but if you set up a Rule as I suggested above it will have no effect on any emails you send, nor on emails from anyone else.

I find it quite disconcerting that Apple can't do anything about it when all of this email passes through their system. I'm thinking it more likely that they don't bother to do anything about it.

I just went to Message tab and redirected the email back to postmaster@mac.com

see how they like it..... 🙂

dont worry, I can hack and spam him. if he ever stops that means I hacked him

TThey can't do anything about it, sadly. They don't even have acces to the deep web

Re-direction (bounce) is not usually a good policy with people you don't know. It proves your address is both valid and monitored ... and encourages more spam.