How to: Bring back bounce in OS X Mail
Apple called it Bounce. I prefer to refer to it as “jerk be gone.” Whatever nom de guerre you choose, it is gone in the latest version of Mail and one of OS X Lion’s most lamented missing features.
Way back in March and April, I bemoaned the fact that Bounce had been cut from OS X Lion’s bundled Mail 5. Well, I’m not moaning anymore, because I’ve got it back and so can you.
Here’s how to do it
1. Open Automator (Applications folder)
2. Select “Service” and click “Choose”
3. From “Service receives,” select “no input” in “Mail”
4. Drag “Get Selected Mail Messages” into the workflow
5. Drag “Run AppleScript” into the workflow
6. Then copy and paste the following script into “Run AppleScript”
on run {input, parameters}
tell application “Mail”
repeat with eachMessage in input
bounce eachMessage
end repeat
end tell
end run
7. Click the hammer in the Apple Script window if text goes blue in some parts of the code and black in others it worked
— If you get an error, replacing any smart quotes with straight quotes
— SAVE your new Automator Service as “Bounce”
8. In Mail, pick a message to Bounce and then under the “Mail” menu, look for Service > Bounce and click it — that email (person) is gone, never to come back
That was pretty easy and brings back a much missed feature to Mail 5.
Have an OS X Lion tip or trick? Share it and a link in the comments below…
via Technominer
It only works if I send mail to myself. It does not bounce mail back to anyone else. What’s wrong?
I did this, and didn’t get any errors…but when I try to test it by bouncing a message that I send to myself…nothing happens. I don’t ever receive a bounce e-mail.
Works like a charm! Thanks!
Is it meant to delete the message from Mail?
Mine didn’t delete so I’m not sure if it worked
[...] ability to bounce a message has disappeared. There is a guide on how to bring bounce back, using Automator and AppleScript. I think I’ve got to edit that script to ensure that after a [...]
Thanks…
It works fine.
Add:
delete eachmessage
after the line
bounce eachMessage
to delete each message after it is bounced.
The straight quotation marks did it for me. And I canNOT thank you enough for restoring this function, along with getting my temper under control again.
All the best!
I keep getting ” Syntec Error Expected expression, property or key form, etc. but found unknown token.
Using this script
on run (input, parameters)
tell application “Mail”
repeat with eachMessage in input
bounce eachMessage
end repeat
end tell
end run
Bob: You may need to change the quote marks if you have used copy/paste, from the curly open and close quotes to the plain double-quote mark.
This worked for me – first time i have used Automator – so just to help any other newbies –
1. To get to “Get Selected Mail Messages” you need to select “Get Selected Mail Items” in the Library (or if you go down the Library List you can click on Mail and then “Get Selected Mail Items”).
2. I typed the script but was not sure whether to type it inside the brackets (* type……*) – i just omitted the brackets and asterisks and typed it exactly as in the article with a space between each line.
3. I added the instruction “delete eachMessage” as Jeff said.
So I am really pleased to have Bounce back thank you.
There is an app available for bouncing email. Called BounceMyX on iTunes store
I noticed that AFTER using Bounce, if you are using [in my case] IMAP (.me) emil addresses, it eventually RE-DOWNLOADS the bounced and deleted email. Is there a way to keep this from happening.
the only problem with it is if you use the script the mail gets bounce with a header created and not the original header.
for example. I get most of my spam to my .Mac address, but my main email address that I use now is .me , as configured in mail. This bounce will return the mail to sender as if it was sent to my .me address. defeating to point.
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