On 2020-04-19, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > >> My half-assed understanding of bouncing is this: When you get a >> message that wasn't really meant for you, and you know where it ought >> to go, then you should "bounce" it there [...] > > Correct. This was bounce's original purpose. It has the property > that it passes the original mail's headers on, and thus its > utility for some secondary purposes: >
We had a thread a while back with Reco and Jon Dowland about the bounce feature; alpine has it, Kmail has it, Thunderbird needs an add-on, and Mutt, the email client of the stars, of course, has had bounce since Methuselah was in diapers. At any rate, as bounce means more currently, IMVHO, a notice from an email system to the sender of an email that said email is undeliverable, using the term for a redirection seems fraught with the danger of misconstrual. But I guess these are dangerous times, n'est-ce pas?