How do you bounce spam email in Apple mail?

Bouncing email is a bad idea. It confirms to the sender that they have a good address for you, and more importantly, spammers spoof sent from email addresses so bounced email goes to innocent email users. Even worse, if the bounced email goes to an innocent email user who has also set up auto bounce of email then a race condition is created where an email continues to bounce around the Internet. Multiply these bounced messages by millions a day and it is not difficult to imaging the negative impact of bouncing emails.

Most if not all email clients and servers removed this capability years ago.

Apple removed "bounce" from the Mail app years ago. It doesn't really do anything but confirm your email address was correct.

I get some, not as many as possible. I use throw away email addresses to enter contests, give retailers, respond to surveys, register with clubs, etc. I protect my business and personal email addresses and never use them for these other purposes. many times when giving out your email address it is being sold to spam lists which are traded on the Internet.

Spam/phishing email is the scourge of the Internet and there is no simple solution. Protect your email addresses, report spam in order to improve smart algorithms, and recognize that spammers/phishers are likely here to stay for the long term.

For your example create a rule in your client to trigger on domain .fr and the email containing FedEx.

One problem with universal spam blocking algorithms implemented at the server level is that what you consider spam may not be spam to me. Software is very good at identifying and blocking spam but spammers are equally good at by-passing these algorithms.

It is not unusual and is legitimate for email to be sent from an address on behalf of another organization and it is even more common to have a reply to address different from the sending address. Just like you can put any return address on snail mail you can do the same on an email at the client or server level. There is nothing wrong with that practice so identifying spam using these options is not effective and results in erroneous classification of legitimate email as spam.

But the subject of this thread is bouncing emails not identifying spam, which is a whole new topic. If you could effectively identify and eliminate spam you would be rich or at least famous.

As I stated before, when the human eye can determine in seconds that a spam is illegitimate, software should have the same capability. A FedEx spam (simply as an example here) coming from a .edu.fr email address is absolutely not legitimate, ESPECIALLY if the link in the spam goes to yet a third web domain that is often a WordPress page. I don't mind that I can spot the spam as readily as I can while the software can't, but I want to find a way to block these spams, somehow. These things are designed to avoid Rules by faking legitimate mails.

My simplest request is to find a way to block visibly-obvious spam when these emails are designed to bypass any junk filters by emulating legitimate sources. Setting rules against content or email addresses isn't good enough when either MIGHT be legitimate but together they are not. I've attempted such rules and they universally fail to detect the spam.

Here's a question for you: How many emails do you receive claiming you have messages from ( x ) source (FedEx, Pintrest, photo site, Google, etc.) either that your own messages (of which you haven't sent any) or photos (of which you haven't posted any) or the source needs you to verify per a link, yet the link goes to absolutely none of those domains? How would you block it? After all, the word 'messages' is quite legitimate in both subject and content fields and as such you cannot set a rule against it.

that only helps if the spam comes anytime from teh same adress.
But how to deal with it if the senders email is just random ANYtime?!

yet still seams teh concept to work. I've got alot spam on on of my email adresses. I just disabled it for some time , and voila, now i dont get alot less spam 🙂

Problem is, I'm getting spam on my primary email addresses far more than my secondary ones and Rules tends to handle the vast majority of spam from those secondary email addresses.

Then create rules for your primary email address.

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Somebody who wants to track you can do two things; they can either send an email with a read receipt, or they can send an email with an embedded image (sometimes referred to as a bug or beacon).

Read receipt requests are included in an email’s meta data (its headers). Because the meta data is passive it amounts to no more than a plea to your email software to please ask for a read receipt.

Different email clients don’t agree on what a read receipt header should look like so there’s no guarantee your read receipt will even be recognised as one.

If it is recognised then, overwhelmingly, email clients will prompt users and ask if they want to let the sender know that they’ve read the email. It’s not a great technique for email marketeers trying to keep your tracking secret.

You are much more likely to be tracked by embedded images.

A tracking email has to be written in HTML. This allows it to reference an image on a remote server owned by the sender (this part isn’t underhand, it’s just how HTML works).

When the email is opened, the email software loads the image from the remote server by sending it an HTTP request.

A spammer or marketeer sending a mass mailing can choose to give each email an image with a unique URL so they can tell which recipients have opened their emails.

Like all HTTP requests, the one sent by your email software will contain your IP address. Because IP addresses are allocated geographically, that’s tantamount to providing location data accurate to what city you’re in.

The HTTP request will also contain a user-agent header which provides a brief description of your browser and operating system.

So, from one embedded image systems like Streak can determine:

• Who opened their email
• What time the email was opened
• Where it was opened
• What sort of device it was opened on

The answer to protecting yourself from this kind of tracking is straightforward – don’t load the images.

You can do this by forcing all your email to render as plain text or by allowing it to render HTML without images.

Most email clients are well disposed to help you with this and will actually do the latter by default, giving you the option to download the images if you decide you want them.

The most notable exception to this is Gmail which loads remote content automatically unless you take back control of your images.

For your part you need only understand that loading images in emails means “tell the sender you’ve just opened their email and you’d like them to send you the rest of the message”.

So, if you don’t trust marketers and stalkers with your location and email-reading schedule, it’s time to take back remote content loading.

Below are instructions on how to switch off image loading in seven of the most popular email clients:

iOS Mail

1. Click the Settings icon
2. Click Mail, Contacts, and Calendars
3. Toggle Load Remote Images to off.

Outlook (Desktop – 2007)

1. Click the Tools menu
2. Click Trust Center
3. Click Automatic Download
4. Check Don’t download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items.

Outlook (Desktop – 2010)

1. Click File | Options
2. Click the Trust Center on the left
3. Click the Trust Center Settings button on the right
4. Click the Automatic Download (default) link on the left
5. Uncheck the top checkbox

Outlook.com

1. Click on the Settings icon (cog)
2. Click More Email settings
3. Click Filters and Reporting under Junk Email
4. Select Block attachments, pictures, and links for anyone not in my safe senders list.

Apple’s Mail

1. Click Mail
2. Click Preferences
3. Click Viewing
4. Uncheck Display remote images in HTML messages.

Yahoo Mail

1. Click the Settings icon
2. Click Settings
3. Click Security
4. Locate Show images in email
5. Select Never by Default.

Gmail

1. Click the Settings icon
2. Stay in the General tab
3. Scroll down to the Images section
4. Choose Ask before displaying external images
5. Click Save Changes.

Android Gmail app

1. Tap the menu button
2. Tap Settings
3. Tap on your email address
4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen
5. Tap Images
6. Select Ask before showing.

Hi,

I have the same problem because someone hacked ATT.com website and they have my email address that i use for everything. The ironic thing is I am an email marketing manager and I deal with soft bounces and hard bounces. If we have a hard bounce with a certain code from the feedback loop we can tell the email address is no longer valid and it gets permanently held 3 attempts. There has to be something i can do without have to change my email address.

Do I have to go to created my own script?