Restore bounce to Mail in Lion

Thank you jasonfromcorvallis! I had found the same solution independently by google search... after searching here to no avail!! I was actually returning to this thread to post the assist for others, but you beat me to it. Like you, I was incredibly grateful for the simple tweak solution... power of the users indeed! So I'll just add an encouragement for those who are not incredibly computer savvy... this is easy. I am a mature female w. zero code writing skills and was able to implement. I believe most automated spamming systems do cull dead addresses after a time and this is why bounce comes in handy. Thanks again!

Thank you!!!

suealias wrote:

I had found the same solution independently by google search... after searching here to no avail!!

You didn't search too hard. Hacks like this have been up here since last year. Just that all responsible posters have ignored it as they do not want to be spammers like others.

bernhardfuerst

Use Apple script instead as described herehttps://discussions.apple.com/thread/3201744?answerId=15845969022#15845969022 or herehttps://discussions.apple.com/thread/3201744?answerId=15972456022#15972456022

And many others. Try narrowing your search field next time.

Pete

Defeatist.

Mine haven't.

I've been using Bounce scripts since Outlook way back in the day.

As soon as I got a few spams..they would slow down or be gone after using Bounce for about a month.....because these bastids do end up taking your email Address off their lists..because if they are bad email addresses..they CAN'T SELL THEM to other marketers. The buyer of the lists would be p i s s e d they they would be getting all these bounce backs!

Thanks... I'm supporting!

Some documentation on that or a link at least may make your post look less ridiculous.

Dream on

Pete

This script thing is nice, but actually doesn't work (even though there is no apparent error in Mail telling you so).

If you play the action in Automator (Play in upper right corner), you see the selected message gets recognized in step 1 (as expected), then Automator says in step 2: "Syntax Error: item 1 doesn’t understand the bounce message."

The script exits gracefully but the message is not bounced back.

I'm sorry to be the one to blow the sandcastle away.

Here's the actual error in Automator.

Bouncing isn't spamming. At worst, it's giving the sender a taste of his own spam.

Mac OS 9000 wrote:

Bouncing isn't spamming. At worst, it's giving the sender a taste of his own spam.

The sender is not the one who sent the spam, he's the innocent party who's address was spoofed, bouncing is spamming whether you care or not.

Csound1 wrote:

Mac OS 9000 wrote:

Bouncing isn't spamming. At worst, it's giving the sender a taste of his own spam.

The sender is not the one who sent the spam, he's the innocent party who's address was spoofed, bouncing is spamming whether you care or not.

Bouncing isn't necesarilly spamming. I'm not sure why you don't understand it's purpose but you're misinformed.

el Duque wrote:

Bouncing isn't necesarilly spamming. I'm not sure why you don't understand it's purpose but you're misinformed.

Sorry, can you please back this up with facts? Looking forward to your response.

Cheers

pete

petermac87 wrote:

Sorry, can you please back this up with facts? Looking forward to your response.

Cheers

pete

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam

Because everyone knows wikipedia is the best source for quoting facts. I don't see anything in there about bouncing being spam. There seems to be a high level of ignorance here by members with the most dots.

el Duque wrote:

petermac87 wrote:

Sorry, can you please back this up with facts? Looking forward to your response.

Cheers

pete

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam

Because everyone knows wikipedia is the best source for quoting facts. I don't see anything in there about bouncing being spam. There seems to be a high level of ignorance here by members with the most dots.

But can you please point out the bit about Bouncing being an effective deterent to Spam, especially given your complete trust in Wikipedia.

Waiting on this reply.

Thanks again

Pete