"Success delivery receipts not accepted"

My iCloud email account suddenly will not accept emails sent from my work account. The rejection reads "Success delivery receipts not accepted." I need to be able to communicate between accounts as my colleagues must have access to my personal email address. I cannot change the relevant email settings on my work account. Can I change something on my iCloud email account to accept these emails? Thank you.

iPad Air, iOS 8.1.2

Posted on Dec 12, 2014 8:57 AM

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Dec 12, 2014 7:44 PM in response to lwern

This is a mistake by Apple.


Their mail server is advertising "250-DSN" - that it supports DSN (Delivery service notifications / aka "Success delivery receipts"):-


220 nk11p00mm-smtpin018.mac.com -- Server ESMTP (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.33.0 64bit (built Aug 27 2014))

EHLO srve.com

250-nk11p00mm-smtpin018.mac.com

250-8BITMIME

250-PIPELINING

250-CHUNKING

250-DSN

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-EXPN

250-HELP

250-XADR

250-XSTA

250-XCIR

250-XGEN

250-XLOOP 053BF41F60FB376D6B57BCE14409B410

250-STARTTLS

250-ETRN

250-NO-SOLICITING

250 SIZE 28311552


However - if you use that, it rejects your mail:


>>> DATA

<<< 550 5.7.1 Success delivery receipts not accepted: recipient@icloud.com

550 5.1.1 <recipient@icloud.com>... User unknown

<<< 554 5.5.0 No recipients have been specified.


This is taking place for all icloud, mac.com and other apple-related emails.

Dec 30, 2014 7:35 AM in response to lwern

I have the same problem:

I can send email from my iPhone to my computer

I receive email from Apple to my iPhone.

I cannot sent email from my computer to my iPhone; which worked in the past.

I am replaying on the email received from my iPhone, see error message below.


Error Message from my computer:

Recipient address: x.y@icloud.com

Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address

Diagnostic code: smtp; 550 5.7.1 Success delivery receipts not accepted: x.y@icloud.com

Remote system: dns; mx5.mail.icloud.com (TCP|10.23.118.207|43408|17.172.34.69|25)

Jan 6, 2015 6:05 AM in response to lwern

I have located the problem: The problem is from my MS outlook on my computer to my Internet Service Provider (ISP). My ISP claim it is a Microsoft problem. Apple and my ISP are claiming there is no problem on their side by sending a email by logging on my ISP web email site and the email is working. The problem is that all other emails is working from my MS outlook to my ISP and there are no email options to correct email from MS outlook to my iPhone or Apple. I cannot see how Microsoft has manage to block all emails to @iCloud.com and @me.com. It has to be Apple email problem, plus the error message is from Apple.


Error Message from my computer:

Recipient address: x.y@icloud.com

Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address

Diagnostic code: smtp; 550 5.7.1 Success delivery receipts not accepted: x.y@icloud.com

Remote system: dns; mx5.mail.icloud.com (TCP|10.23.118.207|43408|17.172.34.69|25)

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