Cristina Ramos wrote:
DJ> Hello: DJ> I think he's refering to what TB! calls "redirect". Other DJ> clients call it "bounce", because it relays the entire message DJ> with complete original headers to someone else.
DJ> -dZ.
The use of "bounce" I know means to bounce back a message to the original sender, pretending that your account does not exist (it's used for SPAM mainly).
That's one of the uses of the term. Eudora Pro and TB! call a feature to relay messages to a different user, with complete original headers, "Redirect". Some other clients, in particular, of the *NIX kind call it "bounce". They both mean the same thing: to relay the exact same message to a different account, with the original headers intact, i.e. redirecting or bouncing the message off your mailbox.
What you are referring to is a mail delivery failure notification, which is also commonly called a "bounce". Since TB! does not have a native "bounce" function to delivery failure notifications to the original senders -- as far as I know -- I assumed that the original poster referred to the "redirect" function. But of course, I could be wrong.
My 7-year-old son uses the Incredimail mail client (awful bandwith spender, I know) and it has that feature.
I agree that spurious mail delivery notifications generated automatically by some anti-spam solutions just clog the pipes with no real benefit. However, redirecting, or bouncing, a message to a different account can be a very useful feature.
dZ.
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