On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 08:28:08PM +0000, davidson wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > >On Du, 19 apr 20, 11:51:27, Chris Ramsden wrote: > >> > >>I'd invite Andrei to define what he means by "bounce". > > > >I thought I already did in follow-ups. The Debian specific instructions > >explicitly mention mutt as an example. > > > >As far as I can tell it is what Wikipedia calls "remailing"[1], > >though I might very well be mistaken. A better explanation would be > >much appreciated (to link to from the wiki). > > 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: - if you want to show the message with all its details to someone (e.g. a postmaster) for further analysis - if you want to feed the message to some spam filter Cheers -- tomás
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