Sue said:
How do I define the rules using ol express 6, when there is no info to
define? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Vanguard
So how'd we get from discussing how to configure Outlook Express from a
post in the Outlook newsgroup? Outlook and Outlook Express are
completely different products, they are not related, they don't share
code, one isn't a Lite version of the other, and each has their own
newsgroup for asking questions. In the future, post your inquires about
Outlook Express in a newsgroup for Outlook Express.
Rule: No vowels in Subject
Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the Subject line does not contain 'a' or 'e' or 'i' or 'o' or 'u'
or 'y'
Delete it from server (or whatever action you want)
Rule: No vowels in body
Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the message body does not contain 'a' or 'e' or 'i' or 'o' or 'u'
or 'y'
Delete it from server (or whatever action you want)
Once you add the first word/phrase/character to search on in the
criteria, you'll notice the Options button becomes enabled and that is
where you switch the condition (to the negative "does NOT contain").
You could define either rule to look for the absence of any alphabetic
character (a through z) and any number (0 through 9) but looking for the
absence of vowels should be sufficient - unless you receive e-mails
using languages with words without vowels, like Jewish or Welch, or get
e-mails like "Hmm, Mz. S, CD/DVD @ $49.95?".
According to RFC 2821, the From header is required (it must appear once
and only once) but I have seen where it was blank (don't remember if it
was for spam). To check on a blank From header AND also check that
there is an e-mail address specified within it, use:
Rule: No "@" in From
Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the From line does not contain '@'
Delete it from server
If the From header were blank then there also would be no "@" character
in it. If it were non-blank but contained no user@domain for an e-mail
address then the "@" character is missing. So this rule does double
duty: Is the From header blank and, if not, might it include an e-mail
address? Note that some bulk mailers and newsletters do not put a valid
e-mail address in the From header, so you will need to define a
whitelist rule before this one to catch those senders (and use the stop
clause in the rule to prevent this rule from deleted those subscribed
bulk mailings).
A blank To or Cc is expected and normal if you were specified in the Bcc
field and no recipients were listed in the To or Cc fields, so you don't
want to test on those being blank. The To, Cc, Bcc, Subject, and
Reply-To headers are optional: they may appear zero or one times. They
are NOT used in specifying the recipient of a message (the RCPT TO
command that your e-mail client sends to the SMTP server is used to
specify the recipient whereas the To, Cc, Subject, and other headers are
just part of the *data* sent in the DATA command). If you want to
simply trigger on you not being in the To or Cc headers, use something
like:
Rule: Me not in To/Cc
Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the To or CC line does not contain '<yourEmailAddr>'
and Where the message is from the <your EmailAddrsAccount> account
Highlight it with <color> (or whatever action you want)
If you only have one e-mail account then the second Where condition is
not required. If you have more than one e-mail account, specify the
e-mail address and the e-mail account together so it is through that
account which uses that e-mail address that you want to trigger when
your e-mail address is absent from the To and Cc headers.
