Spam invitations to iCal

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Spam invitations to iCal

I have just received an iCal invitation from a spammer (GmailAgenda) that was missed by the Junk Filter and then automatically put itself into iCal. When I go to delete the invitation I get only 2 options, 'Cancel' (the deletion action) or 'Delete and Notify'.
I don't want to notify this jerk that I am deleting his spam. How do I remove the unsolicited invitation without notifying them that I have?
And how do I stop it from adding iCal invites automatically?
This is the same as a virus in my opinion. Son of a *****.

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Mar 5, 2008 3:54 PM

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Answer 1

Hemmer.Felix Author

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Mar 5, 2008 4:20 PM in response to Hemmer.Felix

I turned off my internet connection, deleted the event. Mail tried to automatically send the notification but put it into the outbox when it couldn't send. I deleted the email and turned the internet connection back on.
That just *****.
iCal has a setting in preferences to automatically receive invitations from mail. That appeared to be turned off by default, but Mail has a similar setting in preferences that appeared to be turned on by default. I turned the Mail setting off. Hope that solves it.

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Ferd II

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Mar 5, 2008 6:18 PM in response to Hemmer.Felix

Felix,

If that happens again, another option is to use iCal Reply Checker, by John Maisey.

;~)

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Hemmer.Felix Author

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Mar 6, 2008 3:43 PM in response to Ferd II

Thanks Ferd.

That's a good tip.

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Answer 4

Apr 7, 2008 8:50 AM in response to Hemmer.Felix

Felix,
I also received a gMail Agenda invite and your tip worked well. After disconnecting from the web and declining the invite in iCal, I could delete it in the outbox of Mail.
Important: Deleting the spam invitation within iCal after locating it through a search does NOT work!
Since this will be a highly exploited tool for phishing, Apple hopefully fixes that ASAP!!!

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Answer 5

Sacco

Level 1

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Apr 8, 2008 5:51 AM in response to Hemmer.Felix

I just received one of those spam. I was really frustrated that I didn't know how to avoid Mail from sending a reply the the spamer.

*I really think it should be possible to avoid such a problem by creating a function that would erase any events associated with an email when that email is erased ou marked as spam.*

Imagine if we received an email with 200 events in it!?!

That being said, thanks for the info. It will help!

Cheer.,

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