How to filter email with a blank subject line

[Guest]

Using Outlook 2003: How can I set a rule that will send all emails that I
receive with a blank subject line to the junk mail folder?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Using Outlook 2003: How can I set a rule that will send all emails
that I receive with a blank subject line to the junk mail folder?

Some VBA code can help or you can try this:

Create a rule that moves ALL messages to the junk mail and then add an
exception that detects any letter or digit in the subject. This should then
junk all mail whose subject contains nothing or comprises only punctuation.

 

[Vanguardx]

Using Outlook 2003: How can I set a rule that will send all emails
that I receive with a blank subject line to the junk mail folder?

Think in reverse: delete (or move) all messages UNLESS there is a
character in the Subject field.

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the Subject line does not contain 'a' .. or 'z' or '0' .. '9'
Delete it from server

Some users just check for "a", "e", "i", "o", "u" and a number, but
there are words that don't have vowels, like "pfft" and "syzygy", so my
rule checks on any character in the range of "a" to "z", inclusive, and
a number.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Some users just check for "a", "e", "i", "o", "u" and a number, but
there are words that don't have vowels, like "pfft" and "syzygy"

To be pedantic, your latter example contains the letter "y" acting as a
vowel, as it does in the word "rhythm".

 

[Vanguardx]

To be pedantic, your latter example contains the letter "y" acting as
a vowel, as it does in the word "rhythm".

"Some users just check for "a", "e", "i", "o", "u" and a number, ..."
See, no "y" there. Some forget to add "y" and only list the main 5
vowels, and think checking for these will encompass enough of the words
or text strings that might be used in a sentence.

Shhh
nth
Mr.
Mrs.
TV
pfft
psst
tsk tsk
'n
hmm

If you permit more languages than just English then there are lots of
words without vowels (because what is written is different than what is
spoken). I've read that "lm" or "lmh" is "Alma" and "YHWH" is
"Y[a|e]hweh" in Hebrew. In Welsch, "cmm" is "koom", "bws" is "bus", and
"yw" is "you". Even using the above short list, you could have a
subject of "Tsk tsk. Mr. 'n Mrs. TV, hmm?"