Is it possible to create a Thunderbird based on a single character in the message body?
I recieve several emails a day from a submission form on my website that contain what looks like Russian words. I would like to create a message filter to move these messages directy to the trash based on one or two characters that do not appear in the english language. I thought I had done it, but the filters don't appear to work.
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you can filter on the displayed text in a message body, but that can at times be complicated as the text that is rendered is sometimes expressed as the Unicode codes not the text.
So examine the message source (ctrl+U) and confirm that the text actually appears in the body as you are seeing it. The best common example of the text codes I can offer is the % 20 that often appears as a placeholder instead of a space in HTML environments and links.
Matt said
you can filter on the displayed text in a message body, but that can at times be complicated as the text that is rendered is sometimes expressed as the Unicode codes not the text. So examine the message source (ctrl+U) and confirm that the text actually appears in the body as you are seeing it. The best common example of the text codes I can offer is the % 20 that often appears as a placeholder instead of a space in HTML environments and links.
Thanks for that Matt, I checked out the message source and it's kind of garbage. Here is a sample:
КурÑÑ‹ валюÑ
Muudetud
More intentional garbage than you think perhaps.
Upload the source text of the message to pastebin, (copy from the source windows and paste into pastebin) that way I might be able to get something useful from the garbage.
Note that pastebin will allow you to create paste objects without an account, but you loose all control of restricting or deleting if you have not have an account so I suggest create an account and sign in then you remain in control going forward. Otherwise your pasted object wll probably be avaiable on the internet forever. https://pastebin.com/signup
I pased the source into Pastebin. Here is the link: https://pastebin.com/u4VXZ6My I didn't include the message header material, but I do have it should it help.