Timeline for Reply e-mail with 'Undelivered mail' message? [duplicate]
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 13:47 | history | closed | ale gmail Users with the gmail badge or a synonym can single-handedly close gmail questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | Duplicate of Can I bounce messages (not forward, but a true bounce) in Gmail? | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 19:31 | answer | added | brokensyntax | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 20, 2013 at 0:03 | comment | added | Daniel A.A. Pelsmaeker | @AlEverett The first question is obviously not a duplicate question, but might be a possible solution. Yes a bounce would do it, I think, but I need a Windows solution (that question's answer proposes a Linux solution). I don't have Linux installed nor have I enough expertise to pull such a thing off under Linux. The second question is definitely not a duplicate, as I don't know who 's going to mail me, I can't filter them. I'm definitely not psychic. | |
| Mar 20, 2013 at 0:00 | history | edited | Daniel A.A. Pelsmaeker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 19, 2013 at 23:26 | comment | added | ale | Possibly also this one: How to configure Gmail so that filtered user gets an NDR (non-deliverable receipt) or "bounce" message | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 23:26 | comment | added | ale | You're looking to send back a "bounce" message, so that it looks like an invalid address? If so, then this is a duplicate of this question: Can I bounce messages (not forward, but a true bounce) in Gmail? | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 21:22 | answer | added | Krista K | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 21:19 | history | migrated | from superuser.com (revisions) | ||
| Mar 19, 2013 at 19:56 | comment | added | Virtlink | @Scott Yes, apparently I am. However, it can just go through my ISP. Thorough inspection may reveal the origin of the mail, but it should not be in plain sight at the top of the mail. | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 19:49 | comment | added | Scott | Ah, I see; the question is “How can I show the sender of an e-mail that the e-mail address is wrong without revealing that I am the one who’s telling them?” Seems like you are, essentially, asking how to send untraceable e-mail –– in other words, asking for spam tools. | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 19:42 | comment | added | Virtlink | @Scott If you get a reply from, for example, a mailer daemon... then you don't know whether the destination e-mail address exists. I believe the daemon even does not put that address in the From field. If I reply, you do know the address exists and my address is in the From field. I can probably change my From name in Google, but as this is not a one-time thing I'd rather keep my name the way it is. | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 19:34 | comment | added | Scott | Is this entirely a question of concealing your “real name”? Because the sender already knows your e-mail address. If you communicate to them by any means whatsoever (including non-Internet channels such as snail mail and plain old telephone) that the message that they sent on date X with subject Y was misaddressed, all they have to do is look in their Sent folder to see what address it was sent to. As to concealing your real name –– I’m not very familiar with Gmail, but many e-mail services allow you to set your “From name”. Have you looked through your Gmail settings? | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 19:04 | comment | added | Hennes | The from field is set to what you enter in it. (Or what your mail client automatically sets it to). You can decide its contents, so if you want to be called "mailer deamon" then that is no technical problem. However the headers in the mail will still show that where the mail came from you, so if someone takes some effort then they still know that the email address is real. (If I know how to mask that I would have posted a longer version of my comment as an answer :) ). | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 18:48 | comment | added | Virtlink | @Hennes Yes it might be good enough. But I'm not sure how to get a daemon to do that for me, or how to simulate it without getting my own e-mail addres and name in the From field. | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 18:39 | comment | added | Hennes | I guess a reply from "Mailer deamon" with subject "E-mail address incorrect or non-existent" is not good enough? (You can set/fake user names in email. You can also set a reply to address to something else than your mailaccount, so if they try to reply to the 'mailer deamon mail' then it end up elsewhere.) | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 18:38 | answer | added | Ben Lavender | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 18:24 | history | asked | Daniel A.A. Pelsmaeker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |