Junk Email: Blank Messages

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Doug Houston

I'm trying to come up with an Outlook 2003 rule for
automatically deleting junk emails that come through with
no subject, no mailto, and no body (other than an empty
HTML page). Any suggestions?
 
We use SpamBayes on our client machines which pick that up. Problem is
there's a lot of stupid users out there that can't understand how to filter
messages properly. ;-)

Also, as a warning, we're using Symantec Mail Security on our Exchange
server and had set up a rule to filter out all the messages with blank
senders and subjects. Little did we know (and symantec says this isn't
their fault but a "feature") that the filter wiped out all of our form
templates in the public folders. These templates have no subject or sender
and are normall hidden through the public folders. It was a huge mess!
 
I'm having the same problem and do not wish to use a third party tool to get
rid of this. Outlook should be able to do it somehow.

I will continue to research this and see if i can make something work. Let
me know if you figure something out too.
 
Linda Aciss said:
I'm having the same problem and do not wish to use a third party tool
to get rid of this. Outlook should be able to do it somehow.
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Should and can are not always the same thing. By the way, don't post
replies as new messages. It loses the context of the problem.

In order to rid yourselft of messages where the body is blank, create a rule
that deletes all messages and add the "except with specified words in the
body" exception. For "specified words", add each character on your keyboard
as a separate string. Tat way, if there's anything at all in the body, the
message won't be deleted. To make it more restrictive, only add the letters
and digits. That way, a message whose body consists of punctuation only
will also be deleted.
 
How do I test for blank "To" and blank "From"?

Brian Tillman said:
Should and can are not always the same thing. By the way, don't post
replies as new messages. It loses the context of the problem.

In order to rid yourselft of messages where the body is blank, create a rule
that deletes all messages and add the "except with specified words in the
body" exception. For "specified words", add each character on your keyboard
as a separate string. Tat way, if there's anything at all in the body, the
message won't be deleted. To make it more restrictive, only add the letters
and digits. That way, a message whose body consists of punctuation only
will also be deleted.
Click to expand...
 
Linda Aciss said:
How do I test for blank "To" and blank "From"?
Click to expand...

With a rule, you can't. Your best bet is to select View>Arrange
By>somefield to gather all the blank fields together so they can be easily
deleted.
 
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