Apple Domains Refusing to Delivery Email - icloud.com, me.com, etc.

[admin]

Apple randomly decided to block notification emails being sent by the site. These include any threads you are watching and private message notifications.

me.com
icloud.com

If your account has either of these domains for you email address, you will not receive notifications unless you change your email address or whenever I get lucky enough to figure it out.

Apple is zero help. This is a notorious situation that just randomly occurs. The error is "Local Policy". They link you to a 2,000 word document that has nothing about a local policy error, and how to fix it.

All Google searches lead to bitchfests of people complaining that Apple doesn't help - even on Apple's own support forums. No one answers.

This is already too long of a story on technical crapola, but I am taking some guesses on how to change the way automated emails work on this site and maybe I'll get lucky.

 

[Hillcrest]

FYI ... I don't know if related but ... a friend with whom I was discussing strange computer phenomena ... new programs downloaded, settings disturbed, etc, etc ... works in a major hospital and informed me that they had received a company wide warning not to use the hospital computers for any internet searching as all main browsers are now testing AI and they don't want work PCs effected ... in fact they put in some type of block to prevent such a happening to the hospital system. Unfortunately, I am not computer literate enough to explain this in detail but if you are then you can probably understand this better then me.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I'm also not very computer literate, but yesterday on the news they discussed the latest hacks on the nations largest data bases, where lists and lists of emails were stolen. Not much else was messed with. They were saying that email servers were inundated with spammers now and junk emails. Maybe some are tightening up to reduce the amount of unsolicited emails that pass through. I know that I get hundreds of junk emails a day as of the last month or so.
May not be related, but just thought of it as I read your post.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I use my .Mac address only for personal email. Google for everything else.

Apple's spam filters do a pretty good job, and by unsubbing from those sites that I didn't sign up for, but which are still legitmate, my junk mail is a couple dozen a day, mostly caught in the standard filter.

 

[sablebrush52]

I like my Mac, but steer clear of their loud services. I have my own domain, which I set up for business reasons decades ago. That's enough of a pain in the ass.

 

[georged]

I'm also not very computer literate, but yesterday on the news they discussed the latest hacks on the nations largest data bases, where lists and lists of emails were stolen. Not much else was messed with. They were saying that email servers were inundated with spammers now and junk emails.

I figured something like that was going on when Gmail kicked me off without warning and I had to jump through all the double confirmation hoops TWICE to get back on.

They probably reset their entire system with a user purge (so to speak).

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I figured something like that was going on when Gmail kicked me off without warning and I had to jump through all the double confirmation hoops TWICE to get back on.

They probably reset their entire system with a user purge (so to speak).

My Verzion email is hosted by AOL, and they did the exact same thing last week. Absolute PITA

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I have Apple email but not getting notifications isn't a big deal as I check into the forum most days. Any pm will show up there.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Yahoo here, still getting notifications.

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

Wait?! What?! Is A-O-Hell actually still up and functioning? ? ? ? ?

 

[woodsroad]

I have nothing whatsoever to add, so I thought I'd just mention that.

 

[jguss]

I have nothing whatsoever to add, so I thought I'd just mention that.

Me too

 

[Snook]

I have an .icloud domain and can confirm that the notifications seem to be working again.

Now if only we Apple users could find a way to permanently mute Siri's overly loud and obnoxious responses.

"OKAY, I HAVE TURNED ON THE LIVING ROOM LAMP!!!" - Siri

 

[woodsroad]

I have an .icloud domain and can confirm that the notifications seem to be working again.

Now if only we Apple users could find a way to permanently mute Siri's overly loud and obnoxious responses.

"OKAY, I HAVE TURNED ON THE LIVING ROOM LAMP!!!" - Siri

It's modeled after Eddie, the shipboard computer aboard Zephod Beeblebrox's The Heart of Gold .

 

[jpmcwjr]

You said you had nothing to add!

So, I think this thread has served its purpose, and we will say sayonara for now.