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How to Bounce Mail Messages in Mac OS X Lion * Updated *

Wednesday December 7th, 2011

Bouncing Unwanted EmailAdvanced-level Mail.app users of Mac OS X must have noticed that as of Mac OS X Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) the feature of “bouncing messages back to sender” is gone!

There are ongoing debates whether this feature was useful (so as to help fight spam) or not – even totally unnecessary (since many spammers do not use real or valid e-mail addresses, there’s no address to bounce back the junk mail) – the latter probably being Apple’s motive to remove the feature.

For those of you, who need to restore this functionality, there’s good news for intermediate to advanced Mac OS X users who can manage to create an Automator service that will feature an AppleScript to run — at least by following a short simple series of instructions. (See also the screen recording video tutorial below)


 

 

How to bounce Mail messages in Mac OS X Lion

Here are the step by step instructions to do so:

  1. Launch Automator from your Applications folder
  2. Create a new service.
  3. At the top of the editing (workflow) pane, select “no input” pull-down menu item just following the label “Service receives”, and select “Mail.app” from the second pull-down menu. The setting should appear like “Service receives no input in Mail.app”
  4. Locate “Get Selected Mail items” from the actions list on the left, and then drag it to the editing pane (that is the Workflow)
  5. Locate “Run AppleScript” from the actions, and drag it to the workflow.
  6. Edit the script so as to look as the following:
    on run {input, parameters}
       tell application "Mail"
          repeat with eachMessage in input
             bounce eachMessage
             delete eachMessage
          end repeat
       end tell
    end run
  7.  Save your Automator workflow with a name like “Bounce Mail”
  8. In Mail(.app) select the message(s) you want to bounce, then under the “Mail” application menu, select “Services > Bounce Mail (or whatever you named when saving the service) menu item

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8 Responses to “How to Bounce Mail Messages in Mac OS X Lion * Updated *”

  1. Tina says:
    Friday January 27th, 2012 at 12:25 PM

    thanks!

    Reply
  2. Fonda says:
    Sunday February 12th, 2012 at 10:04 AM

    Thanks for the easy step by step instructions!!!! Worked great.

    Reply
  3. HARRY says:
    Friday February 17th, 2012 at 08:27 PM

    Great! Thank you very much! Was needed!! Follow me on twitter @harrystevens1

    Reply
  4. BOUNCEMYX says:
    Friday March 16th, 2012 at 06:49 AM

    There is an iPhone App now that allows you to bounce emails.
    BounceMyX

    Reply
    • Maclord says:
      Friday March 16th, 2012 at 10:52 AM

      Good for those of us who are struggling with spam, bad for the fact that spammers could find out about such tools and get “immune” to such measures :)

      Reply
  5. Anshuman says:
    Sunday March 25th, 2012 at 07:26 AM

    Hi, I did it exactly as you instructed here, but there seems to be a problem. I can bounce emails the way you said, but every time I relaunch Mail, the bounced emails reappear! Can you please tell me how to fix this? (I’m using Mail 5.2 in Mac OS X 10.7.3)

    Reply
    • Maclord says:
      Monday March 26th, 2012 at 08:41 AM

      It sounds like your incoming mail server is (and/or configured as) IMAP and you have forgotten to specify an IMAP path prefix in advanced settings. If my guess is correct, all of your deleted mails must be resurrecting not just deleted / bounced back spam.

      Go to Mail Preferences > Accounts select the mail account in question and then switch to the Advanced tab and type “INBOX” (or whatever your ISP requires) in the field labeled IMAP Path prefix. This should do the trick.

      Reply
  6. Adam says:
    Tuesday April 3rd, 2012 at 11:50 PM

    Yeah! Thank you so much!

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