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Mail rule for empty (blank) Subject![[Bentzen, Peer]](/webx/?30@@1) Peer Bentzen - 02:21pm Mar 22, 2007 PSTGuest UserI liked the option Entourage has to show only the last couple of days mail so much that I, when I changed over to use Apples Mail instead, made a set of rules to do the same.
Everything worked fine - I thought. Until I discovered (the bad way...) that if the sender forgets to fill in a title in the Subject, this mail just slips through my rule-filtering.
When I then tried to add a rule letting every mail with an empty Subject-field through, Mail complained that I couldn't do that. Leaving a definition of a rule blank is not possible. Can anybody help me here? How do you ask Mail to consider an empty field to be a parameter of a rule? Peer Bentzen
Curtis Wilcox (apparently)
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Mar 23, 2007 10:43 am
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Re: Mail rule for empty (blank) Subject
On Mar 22, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Peer Bentzen wrote:
> I liked the option Entourage has to show only the last couple of
> days mail so much that I, when I changed over to use Apples Mail
> instead, made a set of rules to do the same. Everything worked fine
> - I thought. Until I discovered (the bad way...) that if the sender
> forgets to fill in a title in the Subject, this mail just slips
> through my rule-filtering. When I then tried to add a rule letting
> every mail with an empty Subject-field through, Mail complained
> that I couldn't do that. Leaving a definition of a rule blank is
> not possible.
>
> Can anybody help me here? How do you ask Mail to consider an empty
> field to be a parameter of a rule?
Why is the Subject a parameter of your rule if you're trying match
messages based on date received?
In Apple Mail, this sounds more like a job for a Smart Mailbox than a
Rule. Just create a Smart Mailbox with Date Received is in the last 2
days. If you don't want to include mail you've filed into other
mailboxes, add a second condition, Message is in Mailbox Inbox.
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Peer Bentzen
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Mar 24, 2007 12:55 pm
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Re: Mail rule for empty (blank) Subject
I must have written my initial question with the head under the arm. In fact I did create a Smart Mailbox (consisting of rules...).
For my filtering to work properly I need a "not" statement as one of the rules (arguments) in the Smart Mailbox, like: Subject does NOT contain "xyz".
But as soon as I introduce this statement all mail with blank subject fields get filtered out as well.
I just can't figure this one out...
Peer Bentzen
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alec (apparently)
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Mar 25, 2007 4:58 pm
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Re: Mail rule for empty (blank) Subject
At 12:55 -0700 on 24 03 07, Peer Bentzen wrote:
>I must have written my initial question with the head under the arm. In fact I did create a Smart Mailbox (consisting of rules...).
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>For my filtering to work properly I need a "not" statement as one of the rules (arguments) in the Smart Mailbox, like: Subject does NOT contain "xyz".
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>But as soon as I introduce this statement all mail with blank subject fields get filtered out as well.
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>I just can't figure this one out...
You can't? It is true, isn't it, that a blank subject field does NOT contain "xyz"?
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Alec McKenzie
alec  mckenzie.me.uk
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