Mailwasher and Bouncing?

John_3:16

Do you have to pay to upgrade to be able to bounce emails on mail washer. it keeps comming up as not able to do in ths opsition?

Poppycat

Not sure as I have a regsitered version. However its pointless feature bouncing mail as 9/10 it goes to a sender who has no knowledge of sending the email as its ghost machine, that being some poor unsuspected person has a trojan on there pc.

Debt_Free_Chick

Agree - don't bother bouncing, simply delete.

As for the option to bounce, what happens if you right click the message - do you have the option "Mark for Bouncing"? Do you not have a checkbox on the right hand side you can tick to bounce a message?

Unless it's changed recently, bouncing is standard in the free version.

Mercenary

It should bounce most spam if you have the box ticked in the Options .....unless there is no return path to a 'real' address to bounce it back to.
When the little message pops up as unable to bounce, it will tell you this if you can read it quickly enough.

Browntoa

I'm with the others, its pointless bouncing spam...the site they want you to go to is embedded in the mail itself

John_3:16

Only ask as i seem to be getting more spam? Just get fed up deleting it.

It seems to have started since i put mail washer on and delete within mail washer?

ginger_nuts

I would make it for bouncing because mailwasher then blacklists the address ,so in theory less spam .

I have noticed my spam has increased recently

superscaper

ginger_nuts wrote:

I would make it for bouncing because mailwasher then blacklists the address ,so in theory less spam .

I have noticed my spam has increased recently

Although very rarely are the spam emails actually from those addresses. I remember getting a nasty email once accusing me of being a spammer simply because my address was in the from field. Considering at the time I only accessed that account from webmail and so wasn't even on the pc I owned I couldn't even be accused of having a zombie machine. I think blocking spam email addresses is pointless and bouncing back simply adds to the spamming problem as the innocent returnees suddenly get even more unwanted email, which technically makes the person doing the bouncing a spammer as well.

cwoodham

superscaper wrote:

I think blocking spam email addresses is pointless and bouncing back simply adds to the spamming problem as the innocent returnees suddenly get even more unwanted email, which technically makes the person doing the bouncing a spammer as well.

I agree 100%. Dont bother bouncing emails, just delete them. Maybe its time for a Sticky on dealing with spam as this quetion is coming up quite regularly.

HappyMedium_2

Stopped bouncing mine some time ago as it is really a waste of time. Have also noticed an increase in spam and have added the spam filter to my domain management and asked my ISP to block known spam. Gone down from around 500 a day to about 50 per day so quite a big difference.