Re: bouncing mail in evolution

akonstam_at_trinity.edu
Date: 10/19/05

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    On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:35:20PM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
    > On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:45, akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
    > > Is it possible to bounce mail in evolution?
    > > How about thunderbird? Is mail bouncing possible there.
    >
    > The MUA is the wrong place to bounce email. Email should be bounced at
    > the MTA level which means on the server it is being received on.
    > What is the problem you are trying to solve? Are you trying to
    > eliminate spam? If so there are several methods of implementing
    > spamassassin which do an excellent job of sorting out spam from your
    > regular email. I have been using a filter in evolution for a few years
    > now which calls spamassassin and moves spam to a specified folder.
    > Newer versions of evolution includes integration with spamassassin so
    > you can send items to junk. It takes about 100 or so junk messages
    > before the baysian filtering of spamassassin kicks in. There are other
    > spam filters out there as well but I have not used those.
    >
    > If you have control of the MTA you should consider implementing
    > greylisting. This uses a lot less resources than spamassassin. But to
    > use greylisting you must have control of the MTA.
    >
    > Also, in general it a bad idea to bounce email in most cases. Spam in
    > general has bogus from addresses so bouncing messages back to those poor
    > users does no one any good, they did not send the spam. Legit errors on
    > the MTA will bounce messages and those are OK. But users bouncing
    > messages is normally a bad thing. If you don't want the message just
    > trash it.
    >
     As someone else suggested you misunderstand what I mean by bounce.
     Bounce is the process of transferring mail to another recipient just
     as it was received by me. The problem I want to solve that forward
     does not do for me is to transfer the mail and all attachments to
     someone else. Maybe other e-mail clients act differently but when you
     forward a message with mutt and I believe also with evolution the
     attachments are not forwarded with the message. If someone knows how
     to do this without bouncing I would be glad to hear how to do it. 

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