On Mon 20 Apr 2020 at 12:27:55 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 09:57:34AM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:43:40AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >>Thunderbird provides the command ":exec bounce-message". > > > > > >Oh, wow. Thanks for the hint. Does anyone know what that command > > >does? > > > > Someone provided a detailed explaination of bounce a few messages > > earlier in this thread. But briefly, bounce sends the message, > > intact, complete with attachments, if any, just as if you were a relay > > station. > > Oh, this was explicitly about Thunderbird's ":exec bounce-message"? > I missed that bit, sorry for that. Will re-read.
If this is so, then : must be an active character in order to introduce the string "exec". I see no mention of : in that role on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts so we need some clarification. > > However, if you wish to make additions or modifications to the > > message, you use forward. Forward is like a reply, except it is > > sent to a third party, rather than back to the sender. > > "back to the sender" makes me unsure now: does ":exec bounce-message" > let you choose the target, or is it just "back to sender"? It's always seemed futile to me to bounce an entire message back to the sender: after all, they sent it, they know what was in it, and have probably retained a copy (if it's non-trivial). By the time you—the user, using a MUA—receive an email, it's rather late in the day to say that it's undeliverable because, by definition, it's been delivered—to you. > I understand "forward": you get to write a message and send the > original wrapped in a MIME part, which would be OK (provided the > receiver can handle that). With bouncing in the sense of batting it somewhere else, I can see its usefulness if you work within a group of cooperating colleagues, where each is taking responsibility for different aspects. Otherwise, forwarding seems more appropriate and polite. But there are two forms of fowarding (at least in mutt): as a separate attachment, or as part of your own email (like with top-posting). In the latter case (with mutt), you can see that you're only forwarding whichever parts of the original header that you were displaying at the time. Whenever I reported spam/infected emails at work, I always used the attachment mode, in order to make it clear that I had received the email (which should have been filtered out by the servers already) and wasn't myself spamming from an infected system. Cheers, David.
