bounce not sending back e-mail

Bouncing an email is a waste of time and that's why its been removed from most modern email programs.

As most true Spam has invalid Reply email addresses, this should not be surprising.

Since the vast majority of the spammer are spoofing another user's address with their spam, what you in effect do when you bounce an email is you become a spammer yourself. It is for this reason that bounce has been removed from most mail programs today.

I notice miquolyn is running 10.6.8, the same as me, and my 'bounce' option is still there and works. But as said, it is a useless feature and simply confirms the probability the address is live. Whether the problem is with the ISP is perhaps something to check out.

Bounce is a nice optional feature that many people appreciate having. In our organization we do our email using Snow Leopard (10.6.8) so that we can keep the bounce feature.

It is useful to deal with the problem of being added to somebody's mailing list who has 'repied to all' on some viral joke or the like.

I don't use it for canned spam. We use it on people one-on-one. Get tired of someone? bounce the mail. Tonight a guy I know kept sending me more and more information about the impending hurricane that's coming. I live way inland and don't really care. Finally on the 5th one I bounced it Yes, some people know that it's bounced mail, but most don't.

There are times when it does just what I want, such as a person I know sending me useless emails. I bounce them back and they assume my email address has changed. Never hear from them again. Used selectively it is extremely useful.

Why not just mark them as Junk?

Pete

So you are just going to post this in every ancient thread about Bounce being removed? I would have thought that a Level 4 would have better things to do than troll and revive years old threads. Learn to read the El Capitan release notes. Did it mention the return of the bounce feature?

You know where to send feedback.

Please stop wasting our time.

Pete