Re: [Evolution] Bouncing emails

[Rudolf Künzli <rudolf kunzli gmail com>]

On Sun, 2016-08-07 at 17:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Aug 2016 17:16:33 +0200, Rudolf Künzli wrote:
> > On Sun, 2016-08-07 at 17:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > that still doesn't explain how it works to get rid of unwanted
> > > messages
> > > by sending back the original mail.
> > My experience shows that people stopped sending mails after their
> > mails
> > bounced back several times.
> > I am not speaking about spam messages or such kind but about people
> > I
> > know some how.
> > So for me, this is a reasonable method, but naturally not for every
> > one
> > :-)
>
> Indeed, if somebody, even a friend should send something that isn't
> worth a reply, then most people simply don't reply ;). Nobody adds a
> friend to spam filters or blacklists and we not necessarily reply
> with
> a comment. However, if for some reason it should be common practise
> to
> send back the original mail to e.g. friends, then it can't be done by
> automation, since we first need to check if we want to reply or not
> and
> additionally it doesn't matter if we send back the original message
> without additional text or a quoted message without additional text.
> So
> the option you want is a button, that has no special formatting
> style,
> but replies to the sender and this can be done by the reply button
> ;).
> Ok, ok, you want to send back the mail without any quoting, but this
> is
> really an option not many users want to have too.
>
> Claws Mail provides "Actions" a user could define. Since Claws Mail
> is
> not that feature rich, IOW more light weight than Evolution, the
> action
> feature makes sense and that Evolution doesn't provide such a feature
> (perhaps it does and I'm not aware of it) makes sense, too.
>
> 2 Cents,
> Ralf
As far as I learned with this thread, I can use Forward -> Redirect
which does exactly what I need...
I'd love to get the button in the tool bar, but it's not a real
problem.

Cheers
Rudolf

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