I never do that Bill. If a human has triggered the bounce they know it is a legitimate email address and you're likely to get more.
My spam filters in Mail app filter off spam, many per day. After a month they get automatically deleted. Mail app just does it all automatically for me. Sometimes I check in the spam folder for legit emails, but rarely find any. Responding only encourages them. Tim Sent from my iPhone On 14/06/2012, at 9:16 AM, Bill Parker <ren...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > One thing I do with spam is bounce it. I think that process may cause the > "curious email" because there mostly no response back to me. > > Bill > On 14/06/2012, at 8:21 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Tom, >> >> I don't suspect the email has been sent from any of your computers. >> You would need to look at the Long Headers in the email to see where it has >> been sent from. >> >> If you are not using the BigPond email Account, delete the Bigpond email >> account from all your computers? >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> Sent from Ronni's iPad >> >> On 13/06/2012, at 9:28 PM, tom samson <thefr...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> >>> First you are correct I have been with iinet for about five years >>> second there are no copies of that address on my machine and I cannot find >>> it in spotlight or in address book >>> third mail was switched off at the time because we were at work. >>> and curious no sent mails. >>> >>> I think I need to see if little snitch can prevent any unwarranted emails. >>> Can this be done or is there another way ? >>> tom >>> On 13/06/2012, at 8:53 PM, cm wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Tom, >>>> >>>> Just a thought. I take it you are with iiNet now, hence the iiNet mailer >>>> daemon. You may have your wife's old address in an address book somewhere >>>> and inadvertently sent it an email. Which email account was the >>>> notification directed to? Have a look in the sent folder of that account >>>> from as many machines as you use that account on and see if there is an >>>> email accidentally addressed to the old account. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Carlo >>>> >>>> On 13/06/2012, at 20:48 , tom samson wrote: >>>> >>>>> I had an undeliverable email notification from: Mail Delivery System >>>>> <mailer-dae...@icp-osb-irony-out9.external.iinet.net.au> with the problem >>>>> 5.1.0 Unknown address error 550-'5.1.1 and the email address of my wife's >>>>> old big pond account from about 5 years ago. >>>>> It ends with suggesting that I sent this on 13 June 2012 2:12:43 PM AWST >>>>> >>>>> the problem is we were at work at the time and this account has been >>>>> inactive for a long time. >>>>> Is there a problem here? and how could this have happened? >>>>> tom Samson >>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>>> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>