For everyone's future reference Snow Leopard installs Mail 4.0 (1075/1075.2) so it would be helpful if questions specified either the version of OS X or the version of Mail involved. The "fix" may be different.
Hi Joe
It makes no difference what OS or software, it happens on both Macs (one is iMac running Tiger+Mail, t'other G4 running OS9+Outlook Express). I'm the receiver, not the transmitter.
Agreed it is weird. [*]Are you using Mail 3.x or Mail 4 that comes with Snow Leopard?
Not on Leopard. On Tiger, see above.
[*]Does the outgoing "bounce back" appear in Mail's sent message folder?
I never "send" them an email, so, no. Both emails arrive simultaneously. One is the promotion, the other is the "bounce back" which I never sent in the first place.
[*]Does your ISP's POP or IMAP server support an automatic response when messages are opened? [*]
Opening their promotional email also does not pertain. I always get the two at once, simultaneously, see above. In answer to your question, I don't know.
Have you looked at the raw source of the incoming message to see if there is embedded Java or Javascript code to send a receipt notice to Amazon?
MacPilot can disable the use of Java and/or Javascript in Mail.
Er, no.......and I don't think I've got time to do that.
I logged into Amazon last night, rummaged around my profile, and de-subscribed to all their promotional emails. When I'd done that, I had SIX emails from Amazon telling me that I'd done that. <rolls eyes>
It seems to me that this must happen to many of their millions of registered customers. It cannot possibly be only me.
Oh well, hopefully that'll fix it.