Empty mails

[Werner Schalk <we...@gmx.de>]

Hi,

has anyone got a rule to get rid of empty emails that do not have any content?

Bye and thanks,
Werner.

Re: Empty mails

[Loren Wilton <lw...@earthlink.net>]

> has anyone got a rule to get rid of empty emails that do not have any
content?

I posted a thing a while back, but don't have it around in my ruleset at the
moment.  As I recall, the characteristics were both the To: and the body
were missing in these.

Something like the following would probably work.
Note! This is UNTESTED!

header    __HAS_TO          To =~ /^.*$/
body        __HAS_BODY    /^.*$/
meta       EMPTY_MESSAGE    (!__HAS_TO && !__HAS_BODY)
describe    EMPTY_MESSAGE    Contentless header bits
score        EMPTY_MESSAGE    3.0

    Loren

RE: Empty mails

[Gary Funck <ga...@intrepid.com>]

> From: Werner Schalk
> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 6:22 AM
> 
> has anyone got a rule to get rid of empty emails that do not have 
> any content?

If you're running procmail, you can place this ahead of the rule
that invokes SA:

:0 B:
* 1^0
* -9876543210^0 [^ 	]
empty_msg.mbox

that's a <space><tab> in the square brackets above. The -9876543210 is
a procmail idion which tells it to stop scoring immediately if the
pattern matches. The condition above fails when the first non-blank
character is seen in the message. Thus only empty, or all blank messages
will pass, and will be delivered into empty_msg.mbox. You can change
the file where empty messages are delivered to whatever you want.