On 2025-06-27, Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Bounce can and does mean a rejection of the email by the *server*, so >> your proposal seems nonsensical or confusing, as the email has >> already been delivered to its recipients. > > I am not proposing anything. I am *explaining*. > > This is the terminology that mutt uses.
It is not the accepted meaning of the term. https://github.com/mjg59/jargon/blob/master/bounce :bounce: v. 1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the sender is said to bounce. see also {bounce message}.
