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Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever



On 2020-04-20 at 06:27, tomas@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, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

>>> 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.

I don't think it was.

>> 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"?

I think there's a bit of confusion here. I believe the mention of "back
to the sender" is in regard to "reply", not to ":exec bounce-message" or
to any bounce functionality.

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