can mozilla thunderbird email reject working with gmail

Raptor, Get an email server account where you can specify 'server side' message filters so they can be deleted there (at the server) and you don't have to ever see em. ( this rant is NOT directed at you tanstaafl ) And most of the emails you want to reject are from those that are NOT upstanding, so whats the point ? You are just telling them that your email address is valid ! Think about it logically, even if the actual sender is the person in the from address, only those that are upstanding will take you off their distribution list. ' and then send a message back to you say ing 'I never sent that message to you !' and on and on it goes, where it stops, NOBODY knows.Īutomated bouncing/rejection is the DEVIL and should be stopped al all costs.Įmail rejection emails consume an ungodly amount of bandwidth for NO benefit whatsoever. Emails can be spoofed, meaning that the actual sender is not the person in the from address, so if you reject that message, some innocent person will get your rejection and say 'what the. Tanstaafl wrote:Thunderbird doesn't have a way to automate bouncing/rejecting a message.Īnd hopefully never will. Perhaps I'll have to raise a feature request ?īut having now been using Thunderbird for a couple of days I like it too much to go back so in the meantime I think I'll just forward any such emails back to them with a mnaully added rejection message. I don't want to received their messages, their unsubscription methods don't work, I've tried emailing their webmasters but they still send me rubbish so I want to return it as rejected - a facility that I think should be included in Thunderbird. That way the idiots at the other end may eventually get the idea that I don't want their wretched newsletters.Īnd I realise that this adds to the amount of unwanted email 'noise' on the 'net but I don't care (I'm working on the principle that if it gets much more broken then hopefully more effort will be made to fix it !.

My old email client had a 'reject mail' facility which returns the message to the originator with a 'This message has been rejected' header which is what I want to do from Thunderbird.

But deleting it from my POP server isn't quite what I want to do.

Can mozilla thunderbird email reject working with gmail