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Can you bounce e-mail in Lion

Cannot find “Bounce e-mail” in new system..
Why was it removed?
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Gary

Comments: 11 Responses to “Can you bounce e-mail in Lion”

    13 years ago

    Yes, it was removed. Probably because most spammers (90%+) wouldn't be using a real from or reply-to email address anyway. And some used false ones of innocent people who would find their inboxes filled with bounces.

      Mary Rosenzweig
      13 years ago

      That sucks; it was the best feature in Mail. Lion sucks

        Joe
        13 years ago

        I agree

    robert
    13 years ago

    I think bounce should be replaced with some kind of "hunt down the originator of this message, and make their life miserable" feature. But lacking that, it was very satisfying to be able to bounce messages occasionally. Now we have nothing; if you reply with a cease and desist request, your message is likely to be returned as undeliverable. sigh. Even if it's pointless, please give us back our bouncer.

    spydie
    13 years ago

    Use the feedback link in you mail and tell Apple. I did

    Jeff
    13 years ago

    I too only occasionally used the Bounce feature. But, when I did, it was helpful. Hopefully, Apple will restore it (or a similar feature) in a future update of Lion Mail. Even if it did not work all the time in getting messages back to the originators, there was at least a certain amount of satisfaction that I had tried.

    MacDoobie
    12 years ago

    I found some very simple instructions on restoring the function here.
    http://blog.afewguyscoding.com/2011/08/restoring-bounce-functionality-mail-app-lion/

    woopie
    12 years ago

    The feature of “bouncing messages back to sender” is gone! Now it is back !

    http://download.cnet.com/Restore-Bounce-Mail-Button-To-Lions-Mail-app/3000-20429_4-75629050.html

      12 years ago

      Keep in mind that it is not a GOOD thing to use this. Spammers won't get your bounce. But an email using a fake (someone else's) email address would mean that it would simply bounce and clutter up the inbox of someone else just like you.

        brian
        12 years ago

        at least that unsuspecting person will know someone is messing with their account and change their password.

          12 years ago

          That's not the case. Almost all of the time this is because someone is just putting a random email address in the "from" field -- they have no access to that email account, they are just faking it. It is easy to do.

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