Working with Hide my Email

So I’ve noticed that SpamSieve almost invariably marks emails coming to my Hide My Email addresses as spam. The server (Apple) obviously recognizes they aren’t, but regardless of the type of email (friend, business, utility), the first time SpamSieve receives it, it’s marked as Spam. I’ve unfortunately missed some emails as a result of that — I’d trained SpamSieve pretty well, so in most other regards, it’s rare for it to have a false positive (or negative … is flagging spam considered a positive or negative?).

I tried adding “Hide My Email” to the allowlist, but (sensibly) SpamSieve looks for the actual email address and not the “name.” Is there an easy way to train these generically? My HME addresses are the one instance I don’t actually care if they end up being sent to my inbox, because if it does end up on a spam server … I just delete the HME address. But I can’t feed all my HME addresses (I have like over 500 at this point).

Hope this wasn’t as confusing to read as I think it might be.

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It will look in the name if you make your rule for From (name). And SpamSieve creates such rules automatically when you train a message as good. Does “Hide My Email” actually appear in the name?

It will look in the name if you make your rule for From (name) . And SpamSieve creates such rules automatically when you train a message as good. Does “Hide My Email” actually appear in the name?

I think the problem is likely that the “To (any address)” rule is looking for an email address (which always varies), but the “name” is “Hide My Email”.


This is the email that made me say "OK I should probably look into this.

The raw source itself does show Find My Email as the name, so I figured that would be fine.

Looks like later down in the raw source there’s an X-iCloud-HME “property”(?) to denote it’s coming from HME.

I did recently try a full reset and it seems to be recognizing HME as a “good” identifier. So maybe it’s fixed! Then again, that is just a test email from my other account and with zero text lol.

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I’ll send this along shortly!

I see, so it would help if SpamSieve offered a To (any name) location for rules?

I would be interested to see what the X-Authority-Info header looks like for that message.

I see, so it would help if SpamSieve offered a To (any name) location for rules?

Oh most definitely … I assume haha

I would be interested to see what the X-Authority-Info header looks like for that message.


X-ICLOUD-HME is just below that

PS. Just emailed the Diagnostic Report

Thanks. I’m making some changes in the next version of SpamSieve that I think will help.

This should work better in the SpamSieve 3.1.1 beta.