[ArthurVibert]

I had no problem sending one to my iCloud account from my gmail account. Sending it from my Yahoo account apparently caused the filtering function to operate. Sending it from my Hotmail account caused it to come in as spam. So it's more complicated than the phrase, "barely legal teens." It apparently matters where the message comes from as well.

[gilbert1111]

I just read this early today. Then a colleague and I exchanged emails discussing an alleged child abuse case. These cam through our university accounts. Sine the only mail I receive on my iPhone is i/
Cloud, I forwarded the mail to myself at that account. Has yet to show up.

Cheers,

Michael

[kattnip333]

I find it a joke that you included Yahoo in the list of those who can filter emails successfully.... ALL my SPAM comes from Yahoo even with over 100 filters that I put out....it totally ignores the filters I put in. Sorry, but I prefer apple's email service, especially when you have children. 3 cheers for Apple....rah rah rah....That's even more reason to have an Apple email account. Maybe you should consider a Yahoo account.

[ibernard]

I'm noticing that my alias e-mails on Apple, legit from the dot-mac and MobileMe days, are NOT receiving emails from dating sites with whom I register. They then send a confirmation email to one of my alias emails, and I never get it/them. Apple is filtering more than barely legal teens. They are Fn with a guy over 50 who just wants to join a gay dating site. Plain and simple.

[frankdalian]

Apparently the corporate police state never sleeps. Apple continues to own my iPhone and to decide what email I can receive. Great world we're building.

[JimSanders]

I am deeply disappointed in Apple turning into big brother. Spam is spam and deserves some definition apart from content. I guess my Gmail gets more use on general principles.

[worldgonewrong]

There's another good reason not to bother bringing a problem to the attention of Apple Care - they don't get it, don't care to get it, and your time must be more valuable than to waste it trying to get them to understand they should try to understand what their software is doing. When I finally moved onto the cloud all news alerts from NY Times vanished into the junk folder. No matter how I tried to tweak settings, regardless of whether the NY Times was in my address book, etc. I could not reverse the problem. Neither could Apple Care. The solution I adopted was to turn off Junk filtering. In fact I try not to use Junk filters at all, instead relying on rules. Lately Mac Mail has been tossing WSJ alerts into junk. I'm working up the energy to fix it. If I can. But it's just WSJ.

[worldgonewrong]

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You're kidding right??!! The author spends most of the article clearly pointing out how this is really not a big deal and won't affect even one in a million, then proceeds to warn us of the dangers this presents and recommends we switch to other email choices???!!! Much ado.

Think you misread.

[Donald Perreault]

I have Cystic Fibrosis and three years ago I had a double lung transplant. I have 18 different prescriptions and it can be a royal pain calling in my prescriptions. Recently my local mom & pop pharmacy started to accept order's via email. So I pasted my prescriptions from Notes.app into an email and sent the order via email using my iCloud account (****@me.com) to the pharmacist. The next day I went to pick the order up and the pharmacist claimed she never received my order. I just assumed it was a glitch in her new service. The following month the same thing happened. So I copied and pasted from my prescription list in my Notes app and email the pharmacist from my iPhone, we waited several minutes and my email never arrived. When I arrived home I sent the same email via Mail.app using my comcast account and my pharmacist received the list immediately. So apparently Apple/icloud filters for multiple prescriptions names and blocks those types of messages also.

[SkipG]

A few years back my department put together a lengthy parts list for a complex weapon system. The government customer belatedly received the the list because the original, timely email we sent had been blocked by the corporate filter -- one of the line items included the word "nipple." The customer was pissed off because the deliverable was late. Big brother was chagrined.

[daveday]

Try sending an email containing the following words (in any combination):

`exploded pieces instant jaws`

It will not send.

Remove **any** one of those words and it will send just fine.

[jescott418]

I personally gave up on Apple and email a couple years ago. Mobile Me was the last straw and even though I use a .mac address for obvious Apple transactions which again is pretty much a requirement not a choice. I do not use it for anything else. If its not poor Spam filtering its wondering if the icloud.com site will work or the fact that I cannot easily get my Apple mail on any Android device. Well, I should not say can't. But its obvious Apple considers its service more for Apple products then anything else. Maybe somebody should tell Apple that the closed ecosystems are dying. I have to wonder when Apple will actually make a service better? Instead of adding services that do not work very well at all.