On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:35:20PM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:45, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx 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. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
