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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / January 2005Mail and Rules
I would like to setup a rule within Mail to prevent or acknowledge the absent of subject text. Would anyone know to do this? > I would like to setup a rule within Mail to prevent or acknowledge the > absent of subject text. Would anyone know to do this? Briefly playing with Mail's rules I don't see any quick way to do it as Mail won't allow an empty field in the rule criterion. I can imagine an AppleScript to do what you're after. > I would like to setup a rule within Mail to prevent or acknowledge the > absent of subject text. Would anyone know to do this? I tried putting nothing inside two ' signs but it didn't work. I wonder: is your reason for asking the same as mine? Viz., that some loony keeps sending me e-mails with blanks in the message header, from line no text? If Mail app doesn't, as Dave Balderstone mentioned, allow an empty field, can anyone suggest an alternative way of recognising/filtering out messages like these? Kind regards, Devi > I tried putting nothing inside two ' signs but it didn't work. > I wonder: is your reason for asking the same as mine? > Viz., that some loony keeps sending me e-mails with blanks in the > message header, from line no text? I have been getting the same type of e-mail. Seven or eight like that a day. Don't know what they are up to but I also have not been able to figure out a rule yet that works.  SignatureCharles > > I tried putting nothing inside two ' signs but it didn't work. > > I wonder: is your reason for asking the same as mine? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > day. Don't know what they are up to but I also have not been able to > figure out a rule yet that works. How about.... "Subject does not contain [insert most frequently used letter]" > > > I tried putting nothing inside two ' signs but it didn't work. > > > I wonder: is your reason for asking the same as mine? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > How about.... "Subject does not contain [insert most frequently used > letter]" LOL sorry, that was completely stupid. > LOL sorry, that was completely stupid. Actually, not stupid at all... Test for vowels. ;-) If all of the following conditions are met: Subject does not contain a Subject does not contain e Subject does not contain i Subject does not contain o Subject does not contain u Perform the following actions: Move message to Trash Mark as read Stop evaluating rules > Actually, not stupid at all... Test for vowels. > > ;-) > > If all of the following conditions are met: > Subject does not contain a I am going to try that. Except all the following conditions are met: From does not contain a The e-mails that are blank have no text in the From header. They also have no text in the subject header, but sometimes real correspondents, forget to put in a subject header. The ones with no from are not real. SignatureCharles > > LOL sorry, that was completely stupid. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Mark as read > Stop evaluating rules 'Thy' ? Well, since I know no old-time Quakers, I'm prepared to take a chance on this particular false negative... Thank you! Kind regards, Devi > 'Thy' ? > > Well, since I know no old-time Quakers, I'm prepared to take a chance on > this particular false negative... Thank you! The idea was to test for a blank subject so based on Madwen's post I wondered what the shortest list of letters one would have to test for. I can think of a couple of possible subject lines that one would have to add "y" to the list for. Good catch. My, my, my... > > > LOL sorry, that was completely stupid. > > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Well, since I know no old-time Quakers, I'm prepared to take a chance on > this particular false negative... Thank you! How about "My Hymns" or "Fly 2PM 3/3/05" or similar ... great idea for the From field though. SignatureAdrian > > > > LOL sorry, that was completely stupid. > > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > How about "My Hymns" or "Fly 2PM 3/3/05" or similar ... great idea for > the From field though. Or those people who don't put anything at all the subject line, even if it's not spam? SignatureTim Irvin, ziggy29@mac.com "Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours...Abuse no one and nothing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision." -- Tecumseh (1768-1813), Shawnee chief and statesman > > LOL sorry, that was completely stupid. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Mark as read > Stop evaluating rules Yep, testing for all the vowels (don't forget Y) should catch 99% of those subjectless emails. :) > > LOL sorry, that was completely stupid. > > Actually, not stupid at all... Test for vowels. > > ;-) The test for vowels in the "From" line works. Thank you Madwen and Dave. SignatureCharles |
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