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Bug 378262 - Ability to bounce messages.
Ability to bounce messages.
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.6.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-11-22 21:43 UTC by Nathan
Modified: 2007-10-12 16:53 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Nathan 2006-11-22 21:43:45 UTC
I would like the abilty to bounce a message back to the sending server like I didn't exist on the mail server.  It would help in reducing spam by them thinking that the email account no longer exists.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2006-11-23 01:55:35 UTC
hmm, you really think that they would check that, and you really think that the sender address of that email isn't faked?
you would only also spam the sender address by doing this and produce even more spam.
Comment 2 Nathan 2006-11-23 14:28:59 UTC
Most of the spam that I would do this do either is not a spoofed address.  It doesn't mean that it is valid but it not someone else's.  I am hoping that it would act just like a mail server when the user account doesn't exist on the server.
Comment 3 Mark Felder 2006-12-09 06:44:43 UTC
Please look into this feature. People are misled about bouncing email taking them off spammer's lists. Correct, this won't work. 

BUT -- this DOES have a useful feature.

What if someone asks you for your email address, but you dont want to reply to them? You want them to think they didn't get your email address correct? You could bounce back to them and they'd think they didn't get through to you. It's evil, yes, but hey -- it's a nice feature!
Comment 4 yourplayhouse 2007-10-12 04:04:00 UTC
Yes this feature should be added. Regardless of who uses it and why. Why not make it a plugin. I've been looking hard into it. 
Comment 5 Jeffrey Stedfast 2007-10-12 16:53:07 UTC
erm... except that bouncing has to occur at the transport level, not the client level for it to "spoof the idea that the email address doesn't exist"