Bruce Hagen wrote:
Do not download it from server leaves it on the
server
indefinitely. If you choose this, eventually you will
reach your server's quota and you will stop receiving
messages.

Most servers actually age off old messages after a
certain length of time. It does not stay there
indefinitely. Usually it's easily found in the FAQs at
your server.


Delete it from server does just that. It doesn't
download, and if you checked your mail via your ISP's
Website, the message will be gone.

I'm not certain of this, but it seems to be only on the
computer where it's been deleted from the server. OE
just says it's not there any longer; and the server
ages things off unnoticed that way.
How do I know? I have two OE accounts. My main
account, I delete messages from the server after 5
days. And after 5 days I can't get it anymore, even
with a "show all" setting. BUT, if I open the *other*
OE identity, I can go to the server and download it
again. Along with a couple months of other old
messages too, so it's sometimes hard to find, but it's
there.
I only have this single experience, so I've no idea
how widespread it is. AFAIK though it's nothing
special and I've never seen it advertised as any
special advantage. FWIW anyway.

Why do you want to bounce a message? If you get spam
that
has a munged address and you bounced it back, you
would
end up in a eternal cycle of the message being
bounced,
any you getting an undeliverable mail message from
the
postmaster. At the very least, if on the off chance
it
was not a munged address, you would be telling the
spammer to Bring It On! This is a valid e-mail
address.

Actually, it's impossible to actually "bounce" a
message from an account. Only the ISP can bounce
messages, either at the entrance, or que'd for a later
"newmail" type of bounce.
MailWasher for instance has what it likes to call a
'bounce' feature. It uses the Return Path and From:
field for the address to bounce to. But it's a fake
bounce and it's easily identified as such, and is
perceived as spam by spamfighters and newbies alike,
resulting in spam complaints to/about innocent parties.
Both those fields are forged, 99.9% of the time. So
many MailWasher users often find themselves with spam
complaints against their accounts and don't understand
why. Even though it's been advised of this several
times, and even been reported itself from such things
as their address being forged into the From: field,
they still refuse to remove it. Caveat emptor.

Only an ISP can "bounce" am e-mail accureately, and
then only back to the source that sent it. If there is
another source beyond that one, it must relay the
bounce, too, until it gets back to the originator; who,
BTW is going to be the spammer, which is NOT the right
place to be notifying!

HTH

Pop`


"JDoe" wrote in message
...
When "do not download it from server" is chosen as
an
OE6 "message rule," then what happens to that
incoming
email message? Is it deleted eventually
while on the server? Does it stay on the server ad
infinitum? What happens
to it?

In that same regard, what happens to an incoming
email
message when "delete
it from server" is chosen?

The bottom line is that I want to know WHEN (and
how) an
incoming email message can be bounced BACK to the
sender.

Thanks for responses.

OE6, XP Home SP1