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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 ...

SpamSieve Update

by C.K. Sample, III (May 17th, 2005)

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. ...