How to Bounce Emails

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Spam emails are a fact of life when you have an email address. Aside from using a spam filter to keep these messages out of your inbox, there are other things you can try to make certain spam messages stop. One method is to bounce the emails back to the spammers. Most emails programs don't come with a bouncing feature, so you'll need to download a separate program that works in conjunction with your email program.

Steps

Using an Email Management Tool

Download an independent email management tool that has a bouncing feature. Two free programs that are popular to use are MailWasher and Bounce Bully. Visit http://www.mailwasher.net/ to download MailWasher.

Run the file you downloaded and follow the instructions on the installer to install the program.

Open your email program, and then start up your new MailWasher or Bounce Bully program. If you are using MailWasher, be sure to turn off automatic sending and receiving of emails in your email program if the feature is available.

Using MailWasher

Click the "Check Mail" icon to receive the incoming emails that are waiting on the server. Click on a message that you wish to bounce back to the sender.

Right-click on the message and choose the "Mark for bouncing (B)" option. Do this on as many messages as you want to bounce.

Press the "Process Mail" button to complete the bouncing process when you are finished selecting messages.

Using Bounce Bully

Click on the "Message" tab in Bounce Bully. Drag and drop the message you want to bounce from your email program into the Bounce Bully application.

Select the "Config" tab if you want to configure the message that the spammer will receive. Make changes to the Postmaster account name, subject line, and message if desired.

Click the "Bounce" button to bounce the email back to the spammer with your customized message.

Using Bounce Email in Gmail

For Gmail users: If you use Google Chrome, you can bounce emails with Block Sender for Gmail. Download from the Google Chrome Store

Once added, go to Gmail. Open a message you would like to bounce and press the Block Button and Respond with error message option. (This only works with the paid version.)