I need a rule

G

Guest

I am getting inundated with spam where the message body is blank and it has
an attached pdf file. Is there a way to create a rule that will move this to
my spam folder?
 
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F. H. Muffman

lcwakeman said:
I am getting inundated with spam where the message body is blank and it
has
an attached pdf file. Is there a way to create a rule that will move this
to
my spam folder?


Thanks to Brian Tillman for teaching me that rules are substring matches:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
which has an attachment
and on this machine only
move it to the Junk E-mail folder
except if the body contains 'a' or 'e' or 'i' or 'o' or 'u' or 'y'
stop processing more rules


Now, the downside is twofold:
If the spammers start putting words in the email, this rule will stop
working.
It will produce a false positive on any message you get with only an
attachment and nothing in the body (so if your coworker sends you a quick
email with only the attachment, it will get caught, hence the reason I don't
recommend deleting the message, but, instead, moving it to the junk email
folder).
 
G

Guest

That works. These are the spammers that send stock recommendations for penhy
stocks. They used to be a message with just a jpeg in it so there wasn't
anything that was filterable.
 

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