How do I Bounce an email to sender in Lion

No bouncing in the loins.

Apparently Lion doesn't support the bounce Mail feature https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3201744?start=45&tstart=0

but try this workaround > http://www.jarnot.com/archives/2011/08/restore-bounce-message-functionality-to-o s-x-lion-mail-app.php

Thanks, but the link of the workaround is not working.

Are you trying to bounce spam (as opposed to a particular known sender?) - if so, please don't. Most spam has forged 'From' addresses so all you are doing is sending yet more spam to totally innocent people (who are porbably already getting a lot of bounces because of this) and making a bad situation worse. Even if the 'From' address is genuine, I very much doubt any spammer is going to remove your address from a huge list (they certainly would get a lot of bounced from actually dead addresses) - and in any case they can probably tell it's not a genuine bounce easily enough, so now you've just confirmed that your address works. Don't bounce it - just delete and forget.

I use bounce a lot (I went back to Snow Leopard to keep it). I have done lots of testing with bounce and I find it works very well.

In my testing, I would simply ignore various e-mails, and they would continue to come for many months. I would then start bouncing the unwanted e-mails. In most cases, the e-mails would stop after two or three bounces.

Other posters have claimed that a technical savvy person can detect that the bounce is not "real", I do not dispute this. I understand that a detailed analysis of a bounce can detect what it MIGHT be.

In my many years experience with bounce I found it to be about 90% of effective. And as such, it is an indispensable tool that I will NOT give up.

We're glad you're happy, Zitron!

Ziatron wrote:

I use bounce a lot (I went back to Snow Leopard to keep it). I have done lots of testing with bounce and I find it works very well.

In my testing, I would simply ignore various e-mails, and they would continue to come for many months. I would then start bouncing the unwanted e-mails. In most cases, the e-mails would stop after two or three bounces.

Other posters have claimed that a technical savvy person can detect that the bounce is not "real", I do not dispute this. I understand that a detailed analysis of a bounce can detect what it MIGHT be.

In my many years experience with bounce I found it to be about 90% of effective. And as such, it is an indispensable tool that I will NOT give up.

So you are a spammer as well, bad habit.

I totally agree Ziatron. That Bounce feature worked very well. Most Spammers are using mass email programs that quarantine any email address that was bounced. I need that bounce back button back badly! How to I go back to Snow Leopard mail again?

Move your entire system back to Snow Leopard with your last backup

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3525616

Personally I am glad that Apple finally took away the bounce feature, but each to their own.

Good Luck

megahotty73 wrote:

Most Spammers are using mass email programs that quarantine any email address that was bounced.

Most spammers are using fake 'From' addresses so they don't see the bounces. The people who do see them are innocent parties whose addresses have been used, who can find themselves receiving hundreds of bounces from messages they didn't send. Bouncing spam just adds to other people's misery. Don't do it.

Roger Wilmut1 wrote:

Bouncing spam just adds to other people's misery. Don't do it.

And yet the question was 'how do I do it?' not 'should I do it'.

You can do it by using Thunderbird instead of Mail and an add on called MailRedirect.

Rather than taking time to decide whether or not to "Bounce" a particular message, I have found that the best use of my time is "training" Mail's Junk filter. After training it for a while, it's quite accurate, and "non-junk" can be identified at a glance.