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MobileMe webmail balks at political bulk mailings

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2011)

Unfortunately, as originally reported by John Brownlee at Cult of Mac, it looks like Apple may be filtering out emails sent from the online MobileMe client based on content. The story is that a user was trying to send an email mentioning "Authoritarian Oppressive Regimes," and when sent, those ...

Who's behind those spammy video converter apps

by Chris Ward (Mar 16th, 2011)

There's an interesting article from last year over on Macworld about how spammers try to use comment systems on discussion forums to promote their wares. Christopher Breen, one of their moderators, dug into the world of Chinese companies promoting dodgy (as in "don't work very well") video ...

Are bulk app generators junking up the App Store again?

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Dec 7th, 2010)

We've long written about the travails of the App Store, specifically about the hardships some developers have endured (particularly in the early days) trying to get their apps approved. Apple has, in the past year, made great strides in improving this process for developers, going so far as to ...

Ping reaches a million, attacked by spam

by Mike Schramm (Sep 7th, 2010)

Apple's new social network, Ping, has been around for about a week now, and all of the pundits have had their chance at weighing in on what Apple got wrong and right. And what's the result? Not bad, but not great -- more than a million people joined the network in just 48 hours. That's not terrible ...

Manage your TUAW commenter profile

by TJ Luoma (Apr 10th, 2010)

We've had a few inquiries on our tip line and feedback form in the past few days about managing your TUAW commenter profile. Whenever you leave a comment on a TUAW post, an account is created for you using the name and email address that you use in the "New Readers" tab in the comment field. You ...

Phishing schemes targeting MobileMe users again

by Mel Martin (Jan 13th, 2010)

Be very careful if you get an email from Apple telling you they need to re-check your credit card information. One of our readers got just such an email, and he didn't fall for it. This particular rip-off comes from an 'Apple-bills.com' domain, which has nothing to do with Apple. They'll be glad ...

Friday Favorite: SpamSieve 2.76

by David Winograd (Sep 18th, 2009)

My Friday favorite is SpamSieve. We have mentioned it a few times previously, but since it has recently been updated to version 2.76 I wanted to sing its praises again. It's the best way I've found to deal with spam. Using Bayesian filtering, SpamSieve installs as a plug-in to your mail client ...

Drowning in a sea of spam? Spamsweep can help

by Mel Martin (Dec 5th, 2008)

First things first: as a new blogger around here, let me introduce myself. Hi, I'm Mel Martin. I spent most of my life as a journalist, then moved over to the technology side. I spent 4 years at the BBC working on creating a content management system. I'm an avid amateur astronomer and have ...

iPhone's Mail lacks no-images switch

by Michael Rose (Jul 16th, 2008)

Most desktop messaging clients (Apple's Mail.app and Microsoft's Entourage among them) give users the option to skip loading images when reading rich-formatting emails, which both speeds up the loading/reading process and limits exposure to spammer scavenging, which can leverage embedded images to ...

SpamSieve 2.7 is available

by Dave Caolo (May 22nd, 2008)

The great SpamSieve was updated earlier this week to version 2.7. If you're unfamiliar with SpamSieve, you're probably inundated with unwanted email. It's a piece of software that works with your email client and excels at squashing spam long before you ever see it. Over time, it gets better at ...

Two new eBooks focus on Apple's Mail.app

by Steven Sande (May 15th, 2008)

Take Control Books, the digital delivery brainchild of long-time Mac authors Adam and Tonya Engst, has announced the publication of two new ebooks in their Take Control series. Author Joe Kissell has written a 95-page tome titled Take Control of Apple Mail in Leopard that describes the 14 new ...

Cached Leopard Mail images: friend or foe?

by Erica Sadun (Nov 7th, 2007)

TUAW reader Simon wrote in to us, to share one of his favorite new Leopard features--and its unexpected consequences. After clicking on an All Images search, he was astonished to find any number of odd gifs and jpgs pertaining to, um, Viagra, and er, male enhancement. He quickly realized that All ...

87% of e-mail traffic is spam

by Erica Sadun (Dec 29th, 2006)

InformationWeek reports that spam accounted for nearly 87% of e-mail traffic this year, nearly a third more than last year. And that spam wasn't all about getting you to buy V1agra and C1al1s. Quite a bit of it was phishing bait, intended to get you to hand over your personal information and ...

A Mail.app rule for catching image spam

by David Chartier (Aug 4th, 2006)

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 ...

Meat in iPod clothing

by Scott McNulty (Dec 29th, 2005)

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 ...