10.24.07
Gmails says “It appears that you wanted to attach a mail to this mail”
Every so often I will try to send an email from gmail and I get a pop up that says something like “It appears that you wanted to attach a mail to this mail” and gives me the OK/Cancel options.
I put this down to me accidentally clicking on attach but not specifying a file, but then this morning my paranoid mind got the better of me - what if somebody had really cunningly written something that ‘jacked Firefox and some how attached itself to you web based emails as an attachment? Could such a thing be possible - maybe, just maybe. , especially with tools such as GreaseMonkey around.
So I went of searching and it turns out to befar less exciting, it’s just Better Mail, a gmail plugin using GreaseMonkey which introduces some really nice functionality, one but of which is called “Attachment reminder”. It scans your email for words like “attach” and if they are there, reminds you to attach the file. Handy, but a little irritating if you don’t know about it!
Symbo said,
December 13, 2007 at 1:47 am
Thank you.
This has been annoying me for some time now and a previous google had revealed nothing.
I tried again with the exact dialogue text string and up popped your post at the top of the list.
Turn off in Better Gmail and all is well.
Always wondered what that did.