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A Mail.app rule for catching image spam
It seems that I'm not the only one being inflicted with a new wave of image spam, as Bill Benson, a MacInTouch reader, has posted his rule solution for this junk that seems to so easily elude Mail.app's filters. Tim Gaden at Hawk Wings, also a victim, elaborates on how to set up this rule, as a trick is involved. To summarize: for the first condition, select 'Edit Header List...' in its accompanying option, chose 'Content-Type' (or create it if you have to) The Content-Type option will then take first place in the rule (or you might have to select it from the criteria list), allowing you to finish building the rule as pictured The rule is based off of Bill's observation that these spam emails always come from a different address, and the content type header (as you might now assume) begins with multipart/related'.Since I have been receiving around a dozen of these messages on a daily basis, I think I can say that, so far, this rule has been a success. Three cheers for the power of community -based spam filtering. If you aren't using Mail.app, however, I would imagine this trick can be adapted for other email apps. Anyone else try it outside of Mail.app?
Meat in iPod clothing
ABC News reports that Rachel Cambra bought her son an iPod from Wal-Mart for Christmas. So far this isn't all that newsworthy, but when young Cambra ripped into his iPod what did he see before him? A sparkling iPod?Nope, some sort of mysterious meat was in the iPod packaging. The iPod package hadn't been tampered with, and the meat itself was sealed up as well.Wal-Mart will be replacing the meat pod. Could iMeat be what Steve will be announcing at Macworld?[via iLounge]
SpamSieve Update
The one thing about updating to 10.4.1 last night that bothered me (besides Setup Assistant) was that both SpamSieve and Growl's mail bundles deactivated themselves upon launching Mail.app after reboot. Suddenly piles and piles of God-forsaken Spam was playing in the Inbox with all my other mail. Not good.
