ICloud blocking my ISP

When I send an email from my ISP's mail server to an iCloud recipient it does not arrive. Nor do I get a bounce. My Mac expert friend and I have tested and proved this to be the case. Emails sent from my iCloud to his iCloud get trough but not when sent from my ISP's Mail Server. I seems that iCloud is blocking it. My ISP's tech support say this an Apple problem and also say Apple will not deal with them hence my post here.

Imp68 wrote:
Also, I'm not referring to outgoing, as this isn't the OP's reason for posting.
This is what the OP said:
When I send an email from my ISP's mail server to an iCloud recipient it does not arrive. Nor do I get a bounce.
That's outgoing.
Imp68 wrote:
By 'user junk filtering', do you mean the user controls the filtering on the server?  I can't find documentation to back this.
Open your iCloud account (on the web) and explain to me how you can set Outgoing filters?
Here are the incoming filters that you can't find documentation for:
Do you have an iCloud account? if you do please go to www.icloud.com and check what you are saying against the reality.

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