Apple

On 18 June 2013 22:09:46 BST Robert Cuilla <email@hidden> wrote:

Hello everyone and blessings to you

As most know Apple has removed the ability to bounce incoming emails in Mt Lion. Has anyone seen an AS that will replicate that function?

Thanks in advance for your help

Bob Cuilla

Hi Robert

I've just been catching up on the postings in the AppleScript Users list and came across your one to which you don't seem to have had a reply. Here's a way of doing this that I found recently - see http://download.cnet.com/Restore-Bounce-Mail-Button-To-Lions-Mail-app/3000-20429_4-75629050.html.

I downloaded this some time ago and I now have a service in Mail that uses an Automator action that runs a bit of AppleScript that does the bouncing, the bit of AppleScript being as below:

on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Mail"
repeat with eachMessage in input
bounce eachMessage
delete eachMessage
end repeat
end tell
end run

This seems to work OK - the messages are deleted but I've not actually confirmed that they have been bounced - not sure how to do this! There is quite a bit of discussion elsewhere as to whether bouncing a message really gets rid of persistent spam.

Eric Robertson