Mandriva 2007 - Kmail

Hi There - I wonder if anyone can help with this simple
question please. I have looked in the search feature, but
as a newbie, cannot seem to find anything to help.

My problem is regarding mail to ' Undisclosed-Recipient'.
This mail I believe comes under the banner of CC or BCC.

Is there a way to 'Bounce the mail' to the sender?

I have tried via the filter section, but cannot find the correct
path to return mail to sender.

I could of course just delete the mail, but would prefer to send
the mail back to the sender.

If someone could point me in the right direction for info, or perhaps
suggest a solution, then I would be most grateful.
Many thanks your time and attention.

Does this message come from a know sender? If it does, you should be able to set up a rule for it, but if it is spam, or from an unknown sender, sending the message back may be more difficult. The best course of action is usually to simply delete undesired messages. My reasoning follows:

If a message is spam, and you bounce it back to the sender, you are telling the sender that your email address both exists, and is in use. The spammer will then add your address to a list which will be sold to other spammers and you will get larger volumes of spam.

Bouncing an undesired message to the sender doubles the load on the Internet mail system (the undesired message is sent to you, then back again) slowing mail service for all users.

I use fetchmail to retrieve my email, then pass it to procmail for filtering, and read it with Kmail here, so I do not use the Kmail filters at all. I took a look, and the Kmail filters appear to be intended more for sorting mail than other actions. If you click Settings > Configure filters ... then in the configuration dialog click on Help, you can read about download filters. There may be some help there (not sure).

Many thanks Ernie for your most welcome help and info.

Will look at your suggestions about downloading more filters,

but must agree with you about bouncing mail and spam.

The mail does come from a known sender, who I did ask not to include

me in his CC or BCC mail. Guess he forgot again, so will just

delete his mail drops.

Once again Ernie I thank you for your time and attention.

Good Luck

I have a number of friends who have included me in an automated email forwarding list, so I have had a similar problem. My solution has been to inform my friends that if they persist in including me in such a list, I would be forced to automatically drop any mail from them. Those who value my friendship or correspondence have complied.

If this is too radical a solution for your situation, and you want to keep getting email from the sender(s), you could set up a rule to sort their mail to a specific email folder (perhaps named for them e.g.:from Joe). After you create the email folder, ALT+Click it and select expire ... in the resulting pop up menu. You can set the email folder to expire (delete) read and unread messages older than a period of time you select. This way you can periodically check that there is no mail you need to see, but mail from your friend will not grow your mail store to excessive proportions, or flood your inbox (since this senders mail will never go to the inbox).

HTH,

Unwanted e-mail is now growing at such astronomic rates that almost everybody is affected to some degree by it. The rule of thumb, to "filter it off" with appropriate tools doesn't accommodate the problem of the odd good e-mail that slips in with the rejects. Tools that require us to periodically search through the junk to "checks for good mails" aren't enchanting. What point in having them?

Recently while putting in a number of Linux systems in this corner of the globe, I noticed one particular provider appeared to be a strange floodgate for spam. As soon as this particular provider started "providing" spam started flowing! As those who suffered the problem have now changed providers, the pattern cannot be further checked. If forced to name the provider, I would of course insist it all purely coincidental but I wondered if others have researched for statistical correlations or uncovered similar patterns anywhere?

Phidor.