Standardized bounce format (was Re: [Mimedefang] DNS Lookups in MD - Was RBL and DNS lookups)

[David F. Skoll]

Jeff Rife wrote:

> This is one of those cases where it would be nice if there were an RFC 
> for the format of bounce e-mail so you could easily parse it to see if 
> it really is a bounce to a message you sent out.

There is such an RFC: RFC 1894 - An Extensible Message Format for
Delivery Status Notifications

Unfortunately, not everyone uses this format.  DJB, for example, thinks
that it's fine to start failure notifications with "Hi. This is the..."

http://cr.yp.to/proto/qsbmf.txt

(In fact, thanks to DJB, we have code in our commercial CanIt product
*specifically* to deal with the brain-dead qmail bounces... thanks a
bunch.)

--
David.