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iCloud filters the email I send for spam

Recently I have tried to forward a circulating email about how your mind autocorrects spelling mistakes.

However iCloud's outgoing spam filter did not think this mail was appropriate as it contained


PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F

U CAN R34D 7H15

Telling friends to forward a joke or entertaining content is not that evil.

Is this a new "feature". Is this common?

Do I need to cc myself to check if my mail gets sent?

Normally I don't forward this sort of content, but in this case my dad wanted to send it to me, and he wondered why I never replied. So I had to investigate.

Henrik

iMac, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)

Posted on Mar 12, 2018 1:54 AM

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Mar 12, 2018 3:28 PM in response to Eric Root

All other mails I have tried get delivered fine.


Just this one, which is a bit spammy looking, will not get delivered. No error message about non-delivery is returned to me.

I have tried sending to myself directly. Originally the mail had a long text, and by sending about 30 emails, cutting away lines, I narrowed it down to exactly those few words which made the mail undesired.


I tried making a screen shot of the offending text. That made it arrive as expected, so I don't think iCloud OCR the text.


Below is the full text of the offending mail, which I believe is many years old, but still in circulation. Perhaps Apple decided it is about time to end the life of this one :-)



'Doctor Dementia' Tests Your Skills .......

Can you meet these 2, challenges? We've seen this with the letters out of order, but this is the first time we've seen it with numbers.

Good example of a Brain Study:

If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind.

And better than that: Alzheimer's is a long, long way down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.7H15 M3554G3

53RV35 7O PR0V3

H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N

D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!

1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5!

1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG

17 WA5 H4RD BU7

N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3

Y0UR M1ND 1S

R34D1NG 17 4U70M471C4LLY

W17H0U7 3V3N

7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17,

B3 PROUD! 0NLY

C3R741N P30PL3 C4N

R3AD 7H15!

PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F

U C4N R34D 7H15.

To my 'selected' strange-minded friends: If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to your friends with 'yes' in the subject line. Only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting!

If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid, too

Can you raed this? Olny 55 people out of 100 can.

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

If you can raed this forwrad it.

FORWARD ONLY IF YOU CAN READ IT.

iCloud filters the email I send for spam

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