bouncing email and "from" address

[Kurt Hackenberg]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 10:55:26AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote:

>Correct... mutt's "bounce" feature is more like redirecting / forwarding
>a message without modifying the other headers. From memory (and from
>doing a quick test), it uses the person who resent the message's address
>as the envelope-sender.

What Mutt calls "bounce", RFC 5322 and most mail readers call "resend".  
See that RFC, section 3.6.6:
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5322.html#section-3.6.6>

That Mutt function is:
b           bounce-message         remail a message to another user

Mutt has a different feature it calls "resend":
<Esc>e      resend-message         use the current message as a template for a
                                    new one