How can I refuse a crazy stalker email and return it?
I would like an option to return emails to the sender with an official note saying (much like a return due to address no longer valid) "The recipient will not accept this email," or something similar.
I would actually like the bounce option: "...no longer a valid address."
There are dangerous people out there. Some better means of discouragement is needed. Thanks,
Ausgewählte Lösung
Try your email provider's website and see if they offer any ability to "bounce" the unwanted messages.
By the time it has landed in your email client's Intray, it's too late to truthfully declare that the message is undeliverable; it has in fact already been delivered. The standards applying to email don't allow an email client to refuse or refute delivery. Yes, some systems do appear to offer this, but I suspect they use a non-standard client/server interface to request the server to do the refusal on behalf of the client (and as such, somewhat stretch the interpretation of the standards.) POP and IMAP as used in Thunderbird don't offer this facility.
There is an add-on "Mail Redirect" that offers to "bounce" from Thunderbird, but it is not intended for this purpose. Superficially, you could use this to return a message to the ostensible sender, but inspection of the message's headers would reveal that you had indeed processed the message, thereby confirming that yours is an active and valid email address. This form of bounce is provided to allow a message to be forwarded to the appropriate recipient in a large business in such a way that the incoming message appear to have come from the original sender and not the intermediate to whom it was inappropriately addressed. So if you sent a message about an account-related query addressed to info@example.com, it could be redirected internally to accounts@example.com, with the accounts department seeing the message as if it had come directly from you, rather than from info@example.com, as would happen if it were merely forwarded.
If your stalker isn't too clever technically, then redirecting the message back to him might meet your needs, so long as he isn't likely to attempt to decipher the message's headers.
Unfortunately you can't use Mail Redirect in a filter, so you can't automate this process. Doing it at the server, via the email provider's website, is by far the more preferable solution. Even using the server to forward the message to the nuisance's address might be useful if an outright refusal is not possible.
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Ausgewählte Lösung
Try your email provider's website and see if they offer any ability to "bounce" the unwanted messages.
By the time it has landed in your email client's Intray, it's too late to truthfully declare that the message is undeliverable; it has in fact already been delivered. The standards applying to email don't allow an email client to refuse or refute delivery. Yes, some systems do appear to offer this, but I suspect they use a non-standard client/server interface to request the server to do the refusal on behalf of the client (and as such, somewhat stretch the interpretation of the standards.) POP and IMAP as used in Thunderbird don't offer this facility.
There is an add-on "Mail Redirect" that offers to "bounce" from Thunderbird, but it is not intended for this purpose. Superficially, you could use this to return a message to the ostensible sender, but inspection of the message's headers would reveal that you had indeed processed the message, thereby confirming that yours is an active and valid email address. This form of bounce is provided to allow a message to be forwarded to the appropriate recipient in a large business in such a way that the incoming message appear to have come from the original sender and not the intermediate to whom it was inappropriately addressed. So if you sent a message about an account-related query addressed to info@example.com, it could be redirected internally to accounts@example.com, with the accounts department seeing the message as if it had come directly from you, rather than from info@example.com, as would happen if it were merely forwarded.
If your stalker isn't too clever technically, then redirecting the message back to him might meet your needs, so long as he isn't likely to attempt to decipher the message's headers.
Unfortunately you can't use Mail Redirect in a filter, so you can't automate this process. Doing it at the server, via the email provider's website, is by far the more preferable solution. Even using the server to forward the message to the nuisance's address might be useful if an outright refusal is not possible.