How to stop emails without a subject or body

Products

• Email Security.cloud

Issue/Introduction

How to use the Data Protection feature to stop emails with no subject or body.

Environment

Email Security.Cloud

Resolution

The policy below will help with stopping emails without a subject or an email body. If you need to check both, do create individual policies for subject and body (good for reporting purposes). Or a single policy with two conditions pointing the same list with an OR statement, where the first condition is focused on body and the second on the subject.

 

Policy Implementation

Data Protection Location: Access the Clientnet portal > Services > Data Protection Start a new Data Protection policy Name the policy, Monitor emails without a subject or body Apply to: Set to “Inbound mail only” Execute if: pick “All rules are met” Action: set it to “Log Only” Administrator email: Configure a non-production administrator email address, as in not a personal email.     The reason this must be non-production is because DP policy administrators are automatically whitelisted from all DP policies to avoid mail loops. Notifications: set it to “None"     Add a new Rule Name the rule, Check email body-subject Set it to “ALL conditions are met”   Add a new condition - Content Regular Expression List   Click on “Create a new Regular Expression List” Name the list – Empty body-subject Here you’ll add the following entries to the list: (this expression follows the same classification logic used by Microsoft Word to see words) ([^\s—–]+){1,}   Condition options: Email contains: a match for none of the regexes in the selected lists Case sensitive: No Look in: Subject or Body Matched text: Log Matched text   Review and Save the policy