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Need help with spam problem!
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2002
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At least once a day, i receive an email that contains this image:
Now, in the email, the image is always some random name and is always in gif format. The email also contains a small passage from a book or something else and its almost always different. How can I make Mail throw these messages away? I can't figure out what to do. The image name is always different, it is always to a different email other than mine, and its always from a different sender. Please help, they are driving me insane... Mail catches all of my other junk mail besides this one!
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: London
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Urgh - I too get those *a lot* - always a crap table in an image - always pharmaceuticals.
Let me guess - This is on your .mac account?
Alas - I don't know any way to catch them.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: London
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Can you set up a rule to put all messages containing a gif into your spam folder? Omit those from your adressbook in this rule.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2001
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a bit harsh - that would have junked a survey that I just got from iTMS.
Also a bit tricky - since Mail exposes the entire content of the message as raw text. (e.g. you can't just ask for attachment 1 of message foo. )
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Look through the headers for the file and see if you can find anything that is common between all of the e-mails and would help you to mark the messages as spam. Oftentimes you can track down some little thing that will let you block a specific spammer. Just as often you can't since they're getting pretty tech savvy.
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"The captured hunter hunts your mind."
Profanity is the tool of the illiterate.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: London, UK
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After finding that Tiger's spam filter sucked completely compared to Panther, I've installed spamsieve. I know get maybe 1 mail a week that gets through to my inbox. It's just superb software, easy to use and does exactly what it says it will.
No connection to the company, but just really pleased with it. I didn't want to spend the money, but after Tiger I got so fed up with having to manually deal with it all.
J.
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out - Richard Dawkins
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: London
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Hmm - just tried an experiment - and it seems to catch them. It may be too agressive - but I haven't seen that so far.
I spotted this page: http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/lofi...php/t4072.html
and made a rule script:
[php]
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
tell application "Mail"
repeat with eachMessage in theMessages
set theContent to source of eachMessage
try
-- If this is not being executed as a rule action,
-- getting the name of theRule variable will fail.
set theRuleName to name of theRule
if theContent contains "R0lGODlh" then
set junk mail status of eachMessage to true
end if
end try
end repeat
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
[/php]
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