[G4] Fix for Image Spam?

Peter Payne peter2 at jlist.com
Fri Mar 26 19:29:41 PST 2004


>Hi,
>
>I have an increasing problem with all kinds of spam-ish images
>just appearing on my desktop. They are email attachments, mostly.
>Some are real spam, some sent by well-meaning friends who have
>humourous bits with images.
>
>Any way to scotch these from downloading? I now have about 25
>gifs of various sorts sitting on my desktop, all from one email
>download.

Keep your attachments in an attachments folder, not your desktop. 
Make sure the email program is set to delete attachments when a mail 
is deleted, and then when you trash a mail those attachments will go 
away too.
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