Re: Can I "Bounce to sender" an Email message using Outlook?

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

No, and it's a totally useless feature that validates your address as good
and you are only contributing to the flow of spam when you do it.

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[Guest]

Actually you CAN bounce email. I came here to find out because the person in
the office that knows how won't share. He does it all the time to be funny.
It is very helpful to bounce messages back to people with all kinds of
vacation notices, or "I changed my email to". So these people that tell you
it can't be done are WRONG.
I want to do it to specifici people that I am either ignoring or want to
send back a message too.
I wish someone had the guts to tell us how to do that....it's a big secret.

HI Diane,
Thank you for your quick response. Another reader said the same thing. You
learn something everyday. Sherri

No, and it's a totally useless feature that validates your address as good
and you are only contributing to the flow of spam when you do it.

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Does Outlook have a feature that allows me to "bounce to sender" an Email
message? I use IncrediMail for my personal Email and the "bounce to
sender"
feature allows me to "bounce back" an email message. By doing so, the
sender
will (hopefully) believe that the Email address is incorrect and again,
hopefully remove me from his/her contact list.

I have been getting these ridiculous Email requests from people living in
African countries who claim they want to send me money for helping them in
some scam.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sherri

 

[Brian Tillman]

Actually you CAN bounce email. I came here to find out because the
person in the office that knows how won't share. He does it all the
time to be funny. It is very helpful to bounce messages back to
people with all kinds of vacation notices, or "I changed my email
to". So these people that tell you it can't be done are WRONG.
I want to do it to specifici people that I am either ignoring or want
to send back a message too.
I wish someone had the guts to tell us how to do that....it's a big
secret.

It's not a big secret. Just define rules that will send the predefined
messages of your choice. You, of course, will have to create these messages
before hand.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Actually you CAN bounce email. I came here to find out because the
person in the office that knows how won't share. He does it all the
time to be funny. It is very helpful to bounce messages back to
people with all kinds of vacation notices, or "I changed my email
to". So these people that tell you it can't be done are WRONG.
I want to do it to specifici people that I am either ignoring or want
to send back a message too.
I wish someone had the guts to tell us how to do that....it's a big
secret.

No, but it's completely and utterly useless to combat spam, which is what
the original poster was asking about.

HI Diane,
Thank you for your quick response. Another reader said the same
thing. You learn something everyday. Sherri

No, and it's a totally useless feature that validates your address
as good and you are only contributing to the flow of spam when you
do it.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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Does Outlook have a feature that allows me to "bounce to sender"
an Email message? I use IncrediMail for my personal Email and the
"bounce to sender"
feature allows me to "bounce back" an email message. By doing so,
the sender
will (hopefully) believe that the Email address is incorrect and
again, hopefully remove me from his/her contact list.

I have been getting these ridiculous Email requests from people
living in African countries who claim they want to send me money
for helping them in some scam.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sherri