It’s an improvement, perhaps, on the image spam catching rule I posted three months ago.

Having read the post and the suggestion in the comments, I’ve tweaked my rule for this a bit.

It now looks like this:

Most of the image spam I get contains a GIF file.

I like the idea of setting the colour to a particular colour so that I can see at a glance which messages the rule has moved. It gives a warm fuzzy feeling and it helps me to scan quickly for false positives. mail.app, apple mail, spam, junk, image spam, cads and bounders, rules, tipsSimilar Posts:

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