Where has the 'bounce email' feature gone from Lion?

Use an ISP with a SPAM trip on their servers.

Then any SPAM is trapped on the servers at your ISP in addition to any virus and most malware containing email.

The ISP I use allows me to periodically go in to see what has been trapped. I can then release any email that I want and delete the rest from their servers without it ever touching my Mac.

With that kind of service from my ISP, I don't need no stinking "bounce".

Allan

I didn't even realize how bounce worked until I posted the link to bring it back and got all the scathing comments. I didn't end up using it as a result of having it explained so politely....not....

Over the past 3 weeks I have gone from maybe 1 spam email every few months to up to 40 a day. In researching what might be the cause and how to fix the problem I came across these posts about Bounce being removed from Lion. Having just upgraded to Lion, I assumed this was the reason I was now receiving a ton of email spam. I didn't even know Bounce existed prior to this.

Since I know understand how bounce works and don't use it, it would be really helpful if anyone has any insight into the enormous jump in email spam and how I might handle it.

I really don't think there is any cure for spam, I think you can just handle it economically. I've taken the time to go to Apple Mail "Rules" in Mail Preferences and added and edited the rules according to the features of the spam I get. This sends most spam to the trash as it arrives.

The other thing I use is SpamSieve which does a pretty good job of catching malignant stuff.

It's nasty and annoying but at the monent I think it's part of our digital life.

I was doing the rules through Mail but gave up after doing 78 rules over a 2 day period. I will try spam sieve as this is the second time I've seen reference to it.

Is anyone familiar with ESET Cybersecurity for Mac? Would this help in any way with the prob?

I downloaded Spam Sieve and it seems to be working well.

How do I find an ISP with a spam trip?

I went on the internet and did a search for ISPs located in the Colorado. I then started calling them and asked them questions about their operations. When I called Front Range Internet Inc and they told me that they used Linux servers, had tech support for the Mac and they told me they used MailArmory for spam and virus protection I went with them.

Allan

Did you have any "rules" active in Mail before the update? And are they still present in the upgrade? Maybe that not working now. Just a tip.

And if you want bounce back: http://download.cnet.com/Restore-Bounce-Mail-Button-To-Lions-Mail-app/3000-20429 _4-75629050.html

Bas

hi,

if you don't want to be spamed

use at least 2 email addresses one for personal and business use the second like garbage for all the other.

TURCOISE wrote:

hi,

if you don't want to be spamed

use at least 2 email addresses one for personal and business use the second like garbage for all the other.

So your posts would go to address2?

I already know this, not sure who you meant to reply to though.

The word is spammed!

Oops, sorry Csound

Agree. Astonished to find that the bounce feature has been removed.

It was very useful.

If you think that it was useful then you don't understand how it worked.

Allan

Allan I have an old aunt who went through the AOL phase, then went to Yahoo. There wasn't much I could say to guide her in a right computing path. She then got an iMac and wonders why she can't bounce mail.

I just let it go.

I have had my gmail account for 7 years now and I don't get spam. Wonder why? And I never knew there was bounce. So I guess I didn't miss much.

The best spam blockers dont rely completely on any rules or logic. They use people...the community, to vote and ID SPAM.

Each email is fingerprinted and the votes along with the trustworthiness of the individual voters and some of the typical rules and logic are used to kill SPAM very very effectivly.

Cloumark Desktop for MS Outlook does it this way and allows almost zero SPAM through. Even a message that was only a picture with no text. I wish they made it for Mac or Apple would you the SPAM button in mail to the same effect.