On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 13:46:40 -0000, Greg wrote: > On 2025-06-27, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > > > To be clear, what we're talking about here is what mutt does when you > > press the "b" key. It queues up a message for delivery, where the > > Bounce can and does mean a rejection of the email by the *server*, so > your proposal seems nonsensical or confusing, as the email has > already been delivered to its recipients.
I am not proposing anything. I am *explaining*. This is the terminology that mutt uses. Is it confusing? Yes. Could a better word have been chosen? Probably. But this is what they chose. <https://mutt.org/doc/manual/#sending-intro> Key Function Description m <mail> compose a new message r <reply> reply to sender g <group-reply> reply to all recipients <group-chat-reply> reply to all recipients preserving To/Cc L <list-reply> reply to mailing list address f <forward> forward message b <bounce> bounce (remail) message Esc k <mail-key> mail a PGP public key to someone Bouncing a message sends the message as-is to the recipient you specify. Forwarding a message allows you to add comments or modify the message you are forwarding. These items are discussed in greater detail in the next section “Forwarding and Bouncing Mail.” <https://mutt.org/doc/manual/#forwarding-mail> Bouncing and forwarding let you send an existing message to recipients that you specify. Bouncing a message sends a verbatim copy of a message to alternative addresses as if they were the message's original recipients specified in the Bcc header. Forwarding a message, on the other hand, allows you to modify the message before it is resent (for example, by adding your own comments). Bouncing is done using the <bounce> function and forwarding using the <forward> function bound to “b” and “f” respectively. I agree that *normally*, *for most people*, the word "bounce" in the context of email refers to an automatically generated error message composed by an MTA and sent to the envelope sender address of a message that could not be delivered. I agree that it's very confusing that mutt also chose to use the word "bounce" to mean "forward a message with its original headers intact". Nevertheless, that's what they chose, and that's what we're explaining to you.
