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I host about a half dozen on Office 365. When Apple came out, I switched my wife over to iCloud, since we were paying for apple anyways. Big mistake. Spam filt

I host about a half dozen on Office 365. When Apple came out, I switched my wife over to iCloud, since we were paying for apple anyways. Big mistake. Spam filtering on Apple is absolutely horrific. The volume of crap she started to receive was amazing. Flipped back.

esskay 4y ago
I experienced the same thing. I switched a couple of domains over to iCloud and within a week moved them elsewhere. I went from pracically no spam to hundreds of blatently obvious and easy to catch spam emails hitting the inboxes every day. I dont know what Apple uses for spam protection, but its total junk. I could roll a better spam protection myself!
- alphabettsy 4y ago
  Hmm. Maybe there’s a learning element or a bug with custom domains? I’ve used iCloud for years and rarely see spam in my inbox.
  - voisin 4y ago
    What client do you use? I switched to iCloud and started using the Apple Mail app for its integration with Hidden Email Addresses, but the app is totally half baked with tons to weird behaviours (ex. Send an email. A week later no response, click reply on the email and now you are emailing yourself. Ok, so click Reply-all and now you need to delete yourself and move the original recipient to the To line. No one-click way to start a follow up email!)
    - alphabettsy 4y ago
      I’ve used Apple Mail on iOS and Mac exclusively for about 5-6 years. Maybe my workflow is just adapted but the only issues I’ve had were the macOS version occasionally locking up or giving inconsistent search results usually solved by restarting the app.
- rcarmo 4y ago
  As far as I can tell, they are still using Oracle’s flavor of the Sun Internet Mail Server, which was such a piece of unfettered crap when I had to run it in 1999-2004 that we had to set up proxy MTAs in front.
yumraj 4y ago
I just moved to iCloud and have the opposite problem. I forward my gmail emails to it, and most of them end up in the spam folder.
boston_clone 4y ago
To contrast, I set up a brand new email and slowly migrated my critical access to the new iCloud domain. Virtually all my other sign-up accounts are still routing to gmail, I just left that dumpster fire to burn and re-access only when needed. My spam inbound rate has been non-existent.
- vagrantJin 4y ago
  In your case, gmail is the dumpster fire?
  - boston_clone 4y ago
    It was the most sensible way to escape nearly 5000 unread emails, and avoid that issue from recurring; iCloud stays at inbox zero.
    - vagrantJin 4y ago
      Noted.

esskay 4y ago

I experienced the same thing. I switched a couple of domains over to iCloud and within a week moved them elsewhere. I went from pracically no spam to hundreds of blatently obvious and easy to catch spam emails hitting the inboxes every day. I dont know what Apple uses for spam protection, but its total junk. I could roll a better spam protection myself!

alphabettsy 4y ago
Hmm. Maybe there’s a learning element or a bug with custom domains? I’ve used iCloud for years and rarely see spam in my inbox.
- voisin 4y ago
  What client do you use? I switched to iCloud and started using the Apple Mail app for its integration with Hidden Email Addresses, but the app is totally half baked with tons to weird behaviours (ex. Send an email. A week later no response, click reply on the email and now you are emailing yourself. Ok, so click Reply-all and now you need to delete yourself and move the original recipient to the To line. No one-click way to start a follow up email!)
  - alphabettsy 4y ago
    I’ve used Apple Mail on iOS and Mac exclusively for about 5-6 years. Maybe my workflow is just adapted but the only issues I’ve had were the macOS version occasionally locking up or giving inconsistent search results usually solved by restarting the app.
rcarmo 4y ago
As far as I can tell, they are still using Oracle’s flavor of the Sun Internet Mail Server, which was such a piece of unfettered crap when I had to run it in 1999-2004 that we had to set up proxy MTAs in front.

yumraj 4y ago

I just moved to iCloud and have the opposite problem. I forward my gmail emails to it, and most of them end up in the spam folder.

boston_clone 4y ago

To contrast, I set up a brand new email and slowly migrated my critical access to the new iCloud domain. Virtually all my other sign-up accounts are still routing to gmail, I just left that dumpster fire to burn and re-access only when needed. My spam inbound rate has been non-existent.

vagrantJin 4y ago
In your case, gmail is the dumpster fire?
- boston_clone 4y ago
  It was the most sensible way to escape nearly 5000 unread emails, and avoid that issue from recurring; iCloud stays at inbox zero.
  - vagrantJin 4y ago
    Noted.