On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 14:27 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 23:35 +0200, Rudolf Künzli wrote: > > > > Sir, > > You have all rights to call me an idiot even I am not such one. > > When I was much younger, in the 1985 I had an email function (BSD > > Unix) with that one I could bounce a message. > > I did get an disliked message and I could just hit "bounce" instead > > of "reply"... > > I simply did ask if such a feature exists. > > Thank you very much to call this behaviour to be childish (my age > > is 71). > > And just to complete the information on my person, I am a founder > > of Autodesk, Inc, and a developer of AutoCAD from 1982 to 1990... > > I hope you have a nice day... > > The term "bounce" is used for two completely different things. It's > also used for "redirect", where you resend a message to a new > recipient. Some people have mentioned that, but it isn't what you > want > here. > > You mean the original meaning of the word 'bounce', at the SMTP level > — > where an error message is delivered to the original sender, informing > them that the message was not delivered. > > In the 1980s it was acceptable to generate those messages "in the > wild". Leaving aside the manual "don't like it" part of your request, > that means for example that it was acceptable for mail servers to > accept an incoming mail over the network, and only *then* decide that > actually they didn't know the specific user to whom it was addressed, > and then send a bounce message back. > > The problem is, lots of unwanted emails are sent these days with > *fake* > sender addresses. So by sending a bounce to the (alleged) sender, you > make yourself part of the problem. > > So all kinds of filtering these days — not just checking that you > actually recognise the intended recipient, but spam and virus > checking > — is best done at the SMTP server before you ever accept > responsibility > for the message. It is bad practice to accept messages and then send > bounces. > > Your best option might be to configure something like CRM114 in your > mail server, trained by the messages you like and dislike, and then > it > can reject them at SMTP time according to modern practice. >
As I mentioned already, I am "bouncing" messages to known senders only. I am using "redirect" which does the job. I didn't have knowledge of this feature before. Personally I guess, this thread is closed... _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
