Restore bounce to Mail in Lion

Once you click Save, the script is saved as a "Service". To use it, go to Mail and select the email you want to bounce. Then click on the application menu--in the upper-left, right next to the Apple menu (in this case, the "Mail" menu). Go down to "Services", and you should find your new Bounce service in the "Services" submenu. Click that, and the bounce script will be executed.

Best to give it a moment for the script to complete. Once, I bounced a message and then immediately selected another message. The script took a moment to execute, and thus deleted the wrong message. So give it a moment.

Or is "Services" in the Apple menu? I'm not at my computer, and now I can't remember for sure.

Nope, you're right it's in the "Mail" menu, I got it wrong 😟

Why not use an "bounce" button in Mail.app toolbar ?

www.cronomik.de/bounce_lion.html

I like the button idea. How do we add it after creating the service?

Because I like the button idea more than the "Mail-Service_Bounce" method I've done the following steps to get the "Bounce" button working in Lions Mail.app:

- stop Email

- create the script named "Bounce Message.scpt" in /Library/scripts/Mail Scripts/

- go to /Application/Mail.app/Contents an make a backup first using "tar cvfp mail.tar *" as root

- in /Application/Mail.app/Contents go to Resources and edit the two files: MainWindow.toolbar and SingleMessageViewer.toolbar

in "MainWindow.toolbar" find the section TOOLTIP_PRINT and put in the following lines after the TOOLTIP_PRINT section

{

help = "TOOLTIP_BOUNCE";

identifier = "returnToSender:";

image = TB_Bounce;

paletteLabel = "TOOLBAR_PALETTE_BOUNCE";

tag = 0;

target = "MessageViewer";

title = "TOOLBAR_BOUNCE";

},

in "SingleMessageViewer.toolbar" find the section TOOLTIP_PRINT_COMPOSE and put in the following lines after the TOOLTIP_PRINT_COMPOSE section

{

help = "TOOLTIP_BOUNCE";

identifier = "returnToSender:";

image = TB_Bounce;

paletteLabel = "TOOLBAR_PALETTE_BOUNCE";

tag = 0;

title = "TOOLBAR_BOUNCE";

},

- also copy the file "TB_Bounce.png" (see attachment) to the Resource directory

- change to /Application/Mail.app/Contents_CodeSignature and edit the file "CodeResources".

Search for "<key>Resources/TB_AttachTemplate.png</key>" and put the lines in after the TB_AttachTemplate.png section

<key>Resources/TB_Bounce.png</key

<data

SmQvzk53CYitSLVRk26HdCloTio=

</data>

- start email find the "Bounce" button in the toolbar and drag it to your working toolbar

Happy bouning.......

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- create the script named "Bounce Message.scpt" in /Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts/

(*

Baunce Mail Message 17.08.2011 x11max

*)

on run {input, parameters}

tell application "Mail" to display dialog "Are you sure you want to return each selected message to its sender ? If the sender's return address is correct, the sender will receive a reply indicating your email address was invalid. Bouncing messages can help reduce unwanted email." buttons {"Cancel", "Bounce"} default button 2

if button returned of the result is equal to "Bounce" then

tell application "Mail"

repeat with eachMessage in input

bounceeachMessage

deleteeachMessage

end repeat

end tell

end if

end run

Is there an easier way to create the bounce button, like someone did (maybe even you) for the actual bounce script?

Thanks!

and I found this on YouTube to show how to create the Bounce script.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rg--i7z7nA

I can create a simple installer script can do all stuff, tomorrow and post it here.

Excellent!!!

Thank you, Stefan!

That would be greatly appreciated.

🙂 😎 🙂

I was one of those who asked Apple (many years ago) to remove Bounce button. Why? Because, when using it, the next day I found 100x more unwanted messages than before using bounce. In the era of hacking and pirating data, bouncing means more unwanted messages.

My small piece of advice: do NOT use bounce (that is why it has vanished in Lion), this does not solve your issues, on the contrary, will turn it more serious.

After installing the Bounce script in Lion I have not received one more email from VIP Cas****. I was getting 5 or 6 a day, so I have to disagree with your assessment. I also don't get anymore "Enlarge Your ***** emails from a website that was also sending me 3 or 4 of them a day. To each his own. If you don't want to use it then disable it. But for those that do, don't remove it. I for one will continue to use it and I thank Stefan for creating the script.

You may of course disagree, this was my experience 2-3 years ago, things may have improved meanwhile.

Cattus Thraex wrote:

I was one of those who asked Apple (many years ago) to remove Bounce button. Why? Because, when using it, the next day I found 100x more unwanted messages than before using bounce. In the era of hacking and pirating data, bouncing means more unwanted messages.

My small piece of advice: do NOT use bounce (that is why it has vanished in Lion), this does not solve your issues, on the contrary, will turn it more serious.

Totally agree. I used to use the bounce button and thought I was sending back info that my email address did not exist. Foolish. Spam increased in Snow Leopard dramatically. Now under Lion, and not bouncing, my spam has dropped off significantly. So was it the bounce feature being the culprit and Lion actually being the workaround?

I won't be missing it either, but each to their own. And if security engineers have a reason for doing away with it, then I will be more than happy with that.

Cheers