How to "bounce" back an unwanted email.

[macadamia]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
Email Client: pop

Mac|Life's Newsletter today:
"Email has become the de facto system of communicating for many people. Whether it's a business email or a quick note from your Aunt Gertrude in Alaska, email is quick, easy and a bit addictive. Unfortunately, emails ease of use means you get messages from people you would rather forget. Instead of adding these nuisances to the Junk filter, why not "bounce" their emails and make them believe they no longer have your correct address."

The easy solution of selecting Message + Bounce is meant for Mac Mail.

How can we Entourage users nicely "loose" enwanted senders?

 

[Adam Bailey]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
Email Client: pop

Mac|Life's Newsletter today:
"Email has become the de facto system of communicating for many people.
Whether it's a business email or a quick note from your Aunt Gertrude in
Alaska, email is quick, easy and a bit addictive. Unfortunately, emails
ease of use means you get messages from people you would rather forget.
Instead of adding these nuisances to the Junk filter, why not "bounce"
their emails and make them believe they no longer have your correct
address."

This is a stupid suggestion.

The easy solution of selecting Message + Bounce is meant for Mac Mail.

How can we Entourage users nicely "loose" enwanted senders?

If your intent is to use this on junk email - don't waste your time. Junk
doesn't come from legitimate email addresses - they will never see the
bounce.

 

[William Smith]

This is a stupid suggestion.


If your intent is to use this on junk email - don't waste your time. Junk
doesn't come from legitimate email addresses - they will never see the
bounce.

100% agreed. This little trick will actually cause more traffic on the
InterWeb, not reduce it, and spoofed E-mail servers will have to deal
with it rather than the spammers.

If any application were able to actually bounce spam messages directly
back to the spammers then we'd have an easier time finding them and
really reduce spam.

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

 

[macadamia]

My wish to bounce an email was be to used VERY seldom+ only if I wished a sender to be unable to find me. Obviously this is not a spam solution. It seems that we who pay so dearly for Office should have a free Mail feature.