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Bouncing -- for real
Authored by: mhollis on Jun 20, '02 02:12:22PM

dennisbest got me really interested when he mentions "bouncing" in his article. I would love to hear of a technique that would literally do that instead of "bouncing" unwanted e-mail to another folder.

If only there were such a program that would literally send as "undeliverable" all e-mail back out, killing all traces that it ever did exist on our computer.

And I'm particularly interested in something like this because today I received two apparent virus programs in e-mail from someone with an AT&T Worldnet account. Virus immunity is yet another reason why Macs are better than PCs but everyone here knows that.

BTW: The account that received the virus programs and the junk mail is an Earthlink account. Apparently their "spaminator" doesn't work perfectly.



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Bouncing -- for real
Authored by: beastie on Jun 20, '02 02:34:36PM
i don't think it's possible.... at any case bouncing can be implemented only on the server side (your ISP probably).

No program on your client-side computer can perform real bouncing because the message in question has been received already by your ISP mail servers. What happens after that is simple mail retrieval from /var/spool/mail where your email gets stored.
Mail.app feature "bounce" works by spoofing message body so it only looks like it was bounced by sendmail... it's not real bounce...

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Spam filtering for NON-beginners
Authored by: dennisbest on Jun 20, '02 03:17:53PM
I posted this hint for people with little or no experience.... or for power-users to help Mail users who have little experience.

If you want a comprehensive spam solution go to:

http://ceicher.homeunix.com/mt-static/docs/FreeSpamFilteringForMacOSX.html


These instructions are easier than they look and, man, they WORK! Bye bye spam.

I'm reluctant to install this for others because I won't be around to troubleshoot. That's why I looked for a simple solution.




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Bouncing -- for real
Authored by: Louis Ghio on Mar 18, '04 05:14:22PM

Incredimail Premium build 1361 has a Bounce Button.
The sender gets back this:
"I'm sorry to inform you that the message you have sent
could not be delivered to one or more destinations".



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