Restore bounce to Mail in Lion

Here we go again with the infantile, off topic attempts to distract from the topic and provoke arguments just because you hate the Bounce feature. The thread topic did not invite your opinion of "agreeing" or not whether Bounce is good to have or not. The thread is about getting assistance finding where to get the Restore Bounce script and wishing the feature have not been removed. It was not inviting you to complain about how you hate Bounce or the original post topic.

And my own post wasn't asking whether you agree with my phrasing or asking for your critique.

In the sentence you took out of context in your deranged misread, the word hater referenced people who hate Bounce, not speaking of people who hate people in the thread. You missed the point and you keep taking it off topic - please stop doing that and please stop the childish behavior. I wish there was really a moderator instead of two childish people with nothing better to do policing the thread and playing moderator. I'm tired of being dragged back in to respond to these childish goadings.

These are help communities. The thread is not a poll asking for your opinion of the topic. Please stop trying to control the topics people can post. You aren't the moderator and you don't represent Apple. If you and your pal do represent apple then they have become a very rude Company.

Once you start using the term 'hate' I can't take you seriously, sorry.

The question asked in this post has been answered over and over again, yet you keep on asking it

Didn't Einstein have some comment on that?

Please give your feedback to Apple. As mentioned once or twice, bounce was removed three OSXs ago, which does not bare well for its reintroduction.

Good luck

Pete

Nobody's interested in your opinion of which nouns are used or grammar points. If we were then we'd wonder about your pal's use of "bare well" in the followup. Could you please stick to the topic which is any info you can provide on where to get Restore Bounce? If you have nothing to add but attacks on people wishing to use Bounce and finding the Restore Bounce, then you should take our whinings to another thread because we are not discussing your opinion of whether we should want Bounce restored or an app restoring it. We are helping each other, not asking for your tag team match telling people where else to go. Please both of you, get a life; stop censoring thread topics. Find one you want to help with and help. Leave people alone.

This question that you ask over and over and over again has the same answer everytime.

There is no supported method of restoring the Bounce function to Mac Mail.

Read it twice, let it sink in.

We're not interested in your constant negativity. We have had plenty of times that people have found an app for this available to restore the lost functionality and I expect to find another soon before I get Mavericks. I am not in a hurry to upgrade to Mavericks til it is restored. And I'm not interested in distractions talking to you about your desperate urge to stop people's interest in Restore Bounce, which is an interest of many here. It's not an interest of yours, so kindly find a thread you're actually interested in supporting. Also our mentioning it reminds Apple of the interest in it. We're sorry you don't understand the proper use of the feature and keep repeating yourselves about the wrong way to use it but we're not interested in hearing about the wrong ways to use it and how you think that's why Apple removed it. In fact you have no idea why Apple removed it because you're not Apple.

We didn't ask you for more policing. Help threads you can help. Leave people alone you don't want to help. You're not helping this thread. I have the feature added from a downloaded app to Mail in my 10.8.5 and it works great.

So I assume that you do not like the truth.

Good luck with your search.

Csound1 wrote:

This question that you ask over and over and over again has the same answer everytime.

There is no supported method of restoring the Bounce function to Mac Mail.

Read it twice, let it sink in.

It depends on what you mean by "supported", but you can easily make Mail bounce messages using AppleScript. The bounce command is still in there even though the button is gone. Put that into a service or a Mail script, and the bounce feature is there for convenient use. Those scripting features are some of the things I love about Macs.

As for submitting my suggestions to Apple, I have much more important things to ask for, like Mavericks not being dog slow and forcing me back to 10.8.5 😝

Post the method here for those that want it then.

I don't take credit for this method – someone else posted it somewhere I forget – but here:

1. Make an Automator service with an AppleScript that tells Mail to bounce each message then delete. I already did this, so here's the link to it (unzip after downloading): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/643634/Bounce%20Message.zip

2. Put the Automator workflow file in ~/Library/Services (create folder if it doesn't exist) or /Library/Services (for all users). Restart Mail.

3. You should be able to select messages, more than one if you wish, in Mail then press Mail > Services > Bounce Message.

4. Go into System Preferences > Keyboard, and assign a keyboard shortcut to Bounce Message if you want it to be more convenient.

There's sometimes a small lag time before the service starts.

Thanks.

Thank you very much. Is there a way to put this into a rule. So I don't have to think about it.

You can make an AppleScript and put it in /Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.mail (or ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.mail) with this code:

using terms from application "Mail"

on perform mail action with messagestheMessagesfor ruletheRule

tell application "Mail"

repeat with eachMessage in theMessages

bounceeachMessage

deleteeachMessage

end repeat

end tell

end perform mail action with messages

end using terms from

When you make a rule, one of the options for actions is to run an AppleScript. The one you just made should be in the list when you select that. I've tested it a few times, but just in case, test it to make sure it works. One last thing, this guy doesn't recommend mixing AppleScripts with actions that move the messages around in Mail rules.

@Mac OS 9000

Thank you very much. Looks like it is working like a charm.

Not sure what you mean by this "One last thing, this guy doesn't recommend mixing AppleScripts with actions that move the messages around in Mail rules." but for now things seem fine.

I mean that you shouldn't have a rule that does something like "move message to mailbox x, then run AppleScript" or else it might fail sometimes... I'm guessing a multithreading issue. You probably didn't do that if it's working.