Recently I've been receiving a new variation on SPAM, with which I ordinarily don't have a problem. The spammers take a graphic, chop it into random size pieces in a graphics program (probably PhotoShop), save them as .gif files, and send them as an email attachment. I suspect in the html email clients, these arrive and automatically reassemble into the picture. In Emailer, these GIF files fill up the Downloads folder.
My first question: Is there any way to filter attachments as they come in to isolate .gif files? I don't know of a way, but maybe someone else does. Second question: I have the "Trash Message and attachments" AppleScript, but it appears to choke on these emails with the multiple GIF files attached. It takes a VERY long time to work and then at the end delivers an error message that there has been an Apple event timeout. One has to click the error message off before Emailer and the rest of the Mac unfreezes. The Script does trash the message and attachment, but it is so slow, and coupled with the error message, it would be easier just to do everything manually. This AppleScript used to work on other emails all right. Any suggestions as to the current problem, which could be an acceptable solution to my first question, would it work. Thanks ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
