>Has anyone had any luck creating a rule to block subject lines with
>non-printed strings in them?
Could you elaborate?
Do you mean E-mails that have no Subject: header? Or ones that have a
blank Subject: header? Or ones that have a Subject: header that has a
bunch of spaces in them ("Subject: You
Won! -qrecx")? Or true non-printed characters
(using MIME encoding)?
>I'm sure most of you have seen the e-mails with no apparent subject line. At
>the least, these e-mails are a nuisance. At worst, they can contain either
>a virus or a link to one.
I don't think there is a correlation between missing Subject: lines and
spam or viruses.
FYI, there are a number of mail clients that don't add a Subject: line if
the sender leaves the subject blank. So you would also lose a fair amount
of legitimate mail by blocking on it.
>I have played with the scripting tool and command line syntax for the rules
>with little success. The problem is that the subject line of the message
>isn't really blank. They contain strings which are not displayed.
It sounded above like you were talking about E-mails that have no Subject:
header (which I don't think that IMail would be able to filter). But here
you're talking about Subject: headers with something in them. Could you
post one of these, so we can see what it looks like?
-Scott
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