How can I set up a mail rule to catch mail with blank or empty bod

[InteriorMall]

I am using Outlook 2003 and am trying to find a way to filter for blank body
sections in my emails. In Outlook Express I can reverse the logic and search
for emails that have a body section that doe not contain a or b or c or d,
etc. which effectively does this for me. However, in Outlook 2003 I cannot
find a way to do this. Many spammers are now sending blank emails with
attachments and this is what I am trying to filter out by using rules.
Any ideas would be welcome.

 

[F. H. Muffman]

I am using Outlook 2003 and am trying to find a way to filter for blank
body
sections in my emails. In Outlook Express I can reverse the logic and
search
for emails that have a body section that doe not contain a or b or c or d,
etc. which effectively does this for me. However, in Outlook 2003 I cannot
find a way to do this. Many spammers are now sending blank emails with
attachments and this is what I am trying to filter out by using rules.
Any ideas would be welcome.

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).

 

[Pat Willener]

Have you heard of Sisyphus? He would probably know about combating spam
with Outlook rules...

Better install a good spam filter, and don't think about it any more.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Have you heard of Sisyphus? He would probably know about combating
spam with Outlook rules...

Sysiphus should try pushing Mick Jagger up the hill instead of the stone we
was using.

 

[Barbara]

Is there a way to set up a rule based on the contents of the attachment? For
example, if the spreadsheet attachment contains a certain word(s), forward it
the email to a specified distribution list. If not, stop processing.

 

[F. H. Muffman]

Is there a way to set up a rule based on the contents of the attachment?
For
example, if the spreadsheet attachment contains a certain word(s), forward
it
the email to a specified distribution list. If not, stop processing.

Not out of the box.

I suppose, theoretically, something could be written... but I'm not sure
it's entirely possible.