Re: Rules Problem (blank emails)

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From: Tony Shrapnel (shrapnel_at_ozemail.com.au)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:29:13 GMT

Thanks for your suggestion, but that does not work. You only have the option
of excepting words, not characters. If you set the rule to allow emails with
"a" in the subject, it will still block (for example) "that".

TS

"Vanguard" <see_signature> wrote in message
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> "Tony Shrapnel" <shrapnel@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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>>I use Outlook 2003 and every day I receive several totally blank emails. I
>>want to create a rule to filter them to my Deleted Items folder, but I
>>can't see how to do it. The Rules Wizard always wants some actual value to
>>work with and you can't insert "nothing" as a criterion (i.e. ""). I would
>>be grateful for any suggestions.
>>
>> Tony Shrapnel
>>
>
>
> Think in reverse. You want to keep e-mails that have a non-blank Subject.
> In reverse, you want to delete all e-mails that have a blank Subject, so
> defined THAT rule. Define a rule that deletes everything except if it has
> "a" to "z" or "0" to "9" in the Subject header.
>
> Some folks shorten the rule by just looking for the vowels instead of
> every alphanumeric character, but there are languages that have words with
> no vowels in them, like Welch and Jewish, or strings that are valid
> without any vowels in them, like "Mr. X, tsk tsk tsk."
>
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