Q: How do you bounce spam email in Apple mail?
Is there a way to bounce spam email back to the sender using the Apple mail client? I get spam email because some company was hacked and then sold my email address. The Mail app is filtering most of it out into the junk folder. But is there a way to have that email bounce back to the sender so that they will stop sending it to my "me.com" email address?
Posted on Mar 10, 2016 5:39 AM
Bouncing email is a bad idea. It confirms to the sender that they have a good address for you, and more importantly, spammers spoof sent from email addresses so bounced email goes to innocent email users. Even worse, if the bounced email goes to an innocent email user who has also set up auto bounce of email then a race condition is created where an email continues to bounce around the Internet. Multiply these bounced messages by millions a day and it is not difficult to imaging the negative impact of bouncing emails.
Most if not all email clients and servers removed this capability years ago.
Posted on Mar 10, 2016 7:27 AM