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I use Thunderbird on Windows at work for my email needs, and I am just wondering why Thunderbird doesn’t support message bouncing like god’s given mail.app does.

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5 Responses to “mail software pondering”

me Says:
January 29th, 2005 at 4:36 pm
Why would you bounce messages?
mns Says:
January 29th, 2005 at 4:55 pm
In order to discourage spam, perhaps?
DaveW Says:
January 29th, 2005 at 4:59 pm
It may be because mail.app bouncing the message isn’t nearly as good as the email server bouncing it; its value may be more one of perception that actual use…
Arthur Says:
January 29th, 2005 at 5:46 pm
its value may be more one of perception that actual use…

I don’t see the point of bouncing messages from within an e-mailer either (Disclaimer: I was a (lead) developer for an open source e-mailer). After all, the headers of these messages will still reveal that the message was received anyways and bounced from within an e-mail client.
fluffy Says:
January 29th, 2005 at 11:30 pm
There’s at least two reasons to bounce messages, both of which I’ve used many many times:
- Using procmail rules to train bogofilter
- Copying a message from one non-IMAP email account to another
Note that this uses the casual meaning of “bounce” and not, like, mailer-daemon responses, which Mail.app doesn’t support anyway.