Cfelax said:
I've seen all the threads mentioning the blocking of spam (malware)
that
creates these blank emails, but as for making rules, I haven't seen a
post on
how to do that. How do I create a rule to block these blank messages
to put
them in my junkmail folder? What exactly do I have to enter in the
rules
section under Outlook?
Well, to define a rule that checks for a blank Subject, you define a
rule that looks for a character in the Subject, and then reverse the
condition to look for a character NOT in the Subject. You delete/move
all messages unless they have a character in the Subject header, like:
Rule: Blank Subject
Apply this rule after the message arrives
[permanently] delete it (or move or whatever you want)
except if the subject contains 'a' or ... or 'z' or '0' or ... or
'9'
stop processing more rules
Couldn't you do the same thing to test against the body of the message,
similar to:
Rule: Blank Body
Apply this rule after the message arrives
[permanently] delete it (or move or whatever you want)
except if the subject contains 'a' or ... or 'z' or '0' or ... or
'9'
stop processing more rules
By using both rules (with the stop-clause), an e-mail with a blank
Subject get deleted. An e-mail with a blank body also gets deleted. So
in the following matrix of conditions:
Case 1: blank subject, blank body
Case 2: blank subject, non-blank body
Case 3: non-blank subject, blank body
Case 4: non-blank subject, non-blank body
Only the last case makes it past the rules. The 2 rules as above will
eliminate all e-mails where either the Subject or body are blank (i.e.,
I only accept e-mails where BOTH the subject and body have something in
them). I've tested the above 2 rules by sending myself test e-mail and
they work. I don't know if I've received spam meeting cases 1, 2, or 3
but then they are probably getting permantly deleted so I wouldn't see
them, anyway.
