macOS Mail Weird Spam/Malware Activity.

[PinkyMacGodess]

So I get these messages, and I have created rules for them, but when if I create a rule, apply it, the original message blinks out, and is replaced by a second message from a different spoofed email domain (Like the original message is rewritten/swapped). And just now, it soft of dimmed, and wouldn't disappear. This time there was no 'from' to make another rule. It was acting like Mail was 'thinking about something', and now I'm wondering what the heck it was thinking about for so long.

Bottom line: How safe is the macOS Mail app? Has someone figured out a zero-day and is attacking the Mail app.

This kinda makes me nervous. The Mail app does suck (really hard) but I'm not so sure I want to try a different app that could potentially be even overtly (or covertly) worse.

Thanks...

 

[duanepatrick]

Did you try to report it to Apple? Seems like a bug.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Did you try to report it to Apple? Seems like a bug.

I do remember using my corporate email and finding email messages that were 'large', and were actually two, or more, emails stacked in the 'code' of the message. I was surprised that spammers were doing that and assumed that the message you see was the one that wasn't blocked. I can assume that there was a change in the operation of Mail recently that allows the stacked messages to parade past if the first message is blocked, which is bizarre because the stacked messages are a single message (!) so if *the* message is blocked, it *SHOULD* shuffle the subject message to the folder of choice, or incinerate it *POOF*.

But Mail doesn't appear to be doing that now, AND it appears to 'bear down' on the second (and possibly more) stacked messages. It makes me wonder if there isn't a possible zero-day in what a stacked message might be able to pull off.

And contacting Apple? I don't save spam messages. The first question would be 'Send us the message'. But I'll try...

And, does anyone know where the messages go that are filtered to be deleted? Do they figuratively incinerate? Do they just disappear? Is there any record of them? A log somewhere?