How can I set an email rule based on TEXT NOT CONTAINING a word?

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It appears you can base a rule on subject, address etc based on NOT
CONTAINING but I can not find a way to base a rule on the actual text NOT
CONTAINING a word or phrase. Can anyone tell me exactely how to do this?
 
jrmourning said:
this is for words IN THE BODY apparently. I want a rule for WORDS
NOT IN the body.
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Create a rule that used the "except if the body contains specific words"
exception.
 
jrmourning said:
Your suggestion is for BODY CONTAINS specific words Unless I am
missing something. I want body "DOES NOT CONTAIN" specific words.
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You're missing something. If the EXCEPTION is for "body contains", then
anything the rule touches will NOT have the words in the body.
 
Brian Tillman said:
You're missing something. If the EXCEPTION is for "body contains",
then anything the rule touches will NOT have the words in the body.
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After thinking about this a little more, there may be an extra step. This
rule should do nothing, but should contain the "stop processing more rules"
action. Then, there should be one more rule after this one that performs
whatever action you want on ALL messages. Since only messages that don't
have the string you want in the body will reach that rule, that rule will
meet your criteria.
 
This still doesn't solve the problem. How can I move ALL such messages to
the junk mail folder? There apparently is no way to apply a specific rule to
ALL messages. How, for example, would you move ALL messages to the junk
folder? If I use stop processing more rules everything else would go to the
inbox. No?
 
jrmourning said:
This still doesn't solve the problem. How can I move ALL such
messages to the junk mail folder? There apparently is no way to
apply a specific rule to ALL messages.
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Don't specifiy an initial condition and it will apply to all messages.
 
Thank you for all yor help. It would have been nice if microsoft had placed
a box labeled "all messges" to the list. It isn't intuiitively obvious that
if you make no selection, that the rule would apply to all messages. You
have been very kind in sticking with me.
 
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