What happened to the Mail "Bounce to Sender" menu item in Lion?

You can add this back in using Automator to put it in the Services menu found under the Mail menu item. I found this helpful weblink. It seemed to work for me: http://oregontechsupport.com/articles/osx-mail-bounce.php

Still, I don't know why Apple would take this useful feature away. It seems like they are stripping away higher level features in every corner of every app and piece of hardware one by one. Soon, even the most loyal Mac users (like myself) will switch over to PC's or some other crappier system just to get the basics back. Sad. Just sad.

I can’t find it either.

I hope it hasn’t been removed because ios doesn’t have it.

Thanks ... Ken

Why do you bounce email on a daily basis?

Probably removed as most emails you want to bounce are from fake or spoofed emails. Most of the ones I've bounced in the past are often returned as 'Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender'

I'm missing it too. I used bounce a lot. I asked a Genius today and he had no clue about bounce. Ugh

You won't find the Bounce function in Lion Mail. It has been removed from this version.

The only way to get functionality back is via Apple Feedback

I would use Bounce on occasion myself

Many people us bounce to return junk mail as undeliverable. It is a reliable way to get removed from mailing lists because it looks to the sender like the recipient address is no good. Requesting removal through the senders unsusubscribe window only gets yo on even more mailing lists.

It really doesn't work like that, and is a fake bounce, since it can be told by those who want to know that your email server had already accepted it. It has been long standing advice to not use that function.

Bounce is counterproductive -- see:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3498

See also:

Article written from perspective of an operator of a server:

http://www.dontbouncespam.org/

Notice that this one is writtern from the perspective of bouncing an mail which has already been accepted by your email account and its server, which is what we are all talking about:

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

Related to Outlook:

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/re-can-bounce-sender-email-message-using-outloo k-t836976.html

Now if you can get your server to not accept a messsage, then you got something worthwhile.

Ernie

I have not intended to suggest you change anything. Only commenting on the futility of the bounce feature once in Mail. But if you could have filters that would block before your server accepts, that is the only efficacious way to bounce.

Ernie