About 99.9% of spam is from a made up address or a real address of a completely innocent person. There is nothing to keep a spammer from using your own email address to send spam. So trying to bounce spam back to the sender will almost never work. If it goes anywhere, it will go to someone who had nothing to do with the spam. There's even a name for this, "backscatter".
I see that you use gmail so you may not be aware that google is filtering your mail. They are preventing most of the spam from even getting to your mailbox. But there is a spam folder on gmail that you can look at. Most likely, by now, you've received spam that looks like it came from yourself. If you check your spam folder on gmail, you can probably find some such messages.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark BurningHawk Baxter" <markbaxter38@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:06 PM Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: blocking senders in mail?Bounce is in the Message menu. Neat when you have spam, very satisfying to bounce the spam back at its sender. Once, one sender sent me about 200 spams in two or three hours. I collected all of them, saved them in a special folder, then bounced the *ORIGINAL* spams back to the sender. Then, I copied the original folder into my Inbox, selected them all and bounced them al again. I did this five or six times. I have not since received spam from this company...
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