Apple Mail removed bounce functionality?

I know because every bounce I can remember had a very disclosed reason, and could track down the reason. And . . . Because I have never sent one to you :-)

If I really thought someone innocently misaddressed something to me, I would email them back to that effect.

Come on -- you know people thought it was tool for SPAM! And for that it is simply the wrong medicine.

Ernie

sawatzky wrote:

I think you misread that.

When you free up an alias, it must be free for anyone else to use

Not so: email aliases remain tied to the account which created them, even after expiry, and can't be used by another account or turned into another account. But at this stage you can't delete or create them anyway: how they will work in iCloud isn't known yet.

The link to that "bounce" script is dead. Does anyone have that script they can post or send me? thanks

Please restore the "bounce" feature!

You are six months late coming to this thread, so don't hold your breath. Try telling Apple anyway

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

I really miss Bounce too, and I will send feedback. I used it regularly on spam for years--still do on my old powerbook--and it keeps the spam to a minimum. I get far more repeat spam on my yahoo account. Repeat spams from groups were few and always ran out. It never made it worse.

patriciafrombeavercreek wrote:

I really miss Bounce too, and I will send feedback. I used it regularly on spam for years--still do on my old powerbook

Well your old Powerbook, you don't need to worry about as Snow Leopard and Lion are Intel only systems.

If bounce is so vital ( and it really is doing nothing that you think it is) then take whatever your current computer is and reinstall Snow Leopard from your latest backup, or just keep using the Powerbook for Mail. There was a reason it became redundant.

Cheers

No thanks, I'm not interested in going back to snow leopard. but I am curious now about what it actually did, and what the reason was it became redundant.

In today's Internet, where message count has increased sky high, the sender's address no longer reveal the spammer behind it. Using a procmail recipe or other auto-responder program which would bounce the message back does nothing but harm because the bulk spammers use other people's email addresses. The programs are not replying to the real originator of the messages, but to poor individuals whose addresses had been hijacked by collecting them form Usenet newsgroups, web pages, mailing lists etc.

http://pm-lib.sourceforge.net/README.html

Okay, you're talking about professional spammers. got it. Not the only source of spam, at least not mine.

Go to the Right hand top of this page and read some articles under More Like This. You will find a lot of good advice about the Bounce feature.

Cheers

It's not redundant at all, it was a major advantage for users who fight spam. I'm an Apple Dev and even I would pay big bucks for a Macro or patch that could restore such functionality to my Pro and Air.

objectivistzen wrote:

It's not redundant at all, it was a major advantage for users who fight spam. I'm an Apple Dev and even I would pay big bucks for a Macro or patch that could restore such functionality to my Pro and Air.

Then why don't you have it in Lion? Because it was made redundant in Lion, as was Spaces, Exposé, etc. Apple decided to not make them part of the current system. No money wikk buy the function back for you. I don't see your arguement. Lion = No Bounce.

Cheers

Well, first off it wasn't an argument Mulligans, it's more of a preference -- like a lot of people I prefer the bounce function and I'm willing to pay for it as I mentioned. Second it's just objectively true that there's nothing redundant about the bounce feature -- we have nothing in Lion that accomplishes that function. It was remove mainly because there is some minor abuse potential and probably other unknown reasons.

It also doesn't make sense to say "no amount of money will ever bring it back". People make macros, automator scripts, patches, and work arounds all the time to give away freely or sell. Afterall that's how Linux and GNU arose from Unix and FreeBSD giving rise to the whole OS X.

Yeah, whatever. It's gone from Lion. Deal with it.

Good Luck