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Subject: Re: aol.com not compliant with RFC 1893
From: Jeremy Blackman <loki @ maison-otaku . net>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:33:25 -0800 (PST)
To: Olivier Salaun - CRU <Olivier . Salaun @ cru . fr>
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM, postmaster @ aol . com
In-reply-to: <200001061458.PAA30999@home.cru.fr>

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Olivier Salaun - CRU wrote:

> I found out that aol.com is not compatible with status codes as 
> defined in RFC 1893. As you can see in the sample bellow, the 
> transcript of session indicates a 'User Unkown' whereas "Status" 
> field of the delivery-status indicates a Success (2.0.0). This 
> completely alter the analysis of error reports !
> 
> Did anyone already observe such problems with other ISPs ?

Yes; welcome to my personal hell.  After discovering that /only/ Sendmail
actually implements the RFC1893 spec completely correctly, I gave up and
wrote a temporary method for Listar that just parses certain specific
bounce formats, and then tries to determine the information if it is not a
bounce format it recognizes.

I am currently trying to come up with a much more general way that will
work with the busted MIME information I have seen in several bounce
messages.  I would fold that parser into Listar again, but I would also be
happy to work with others to make a bounce parser that is more
general-purpose and could be folded into other packages as well.

-- 
Jeremy Blackman - loki@maison-otaku.net / loki@listar.org / jeremy@lith.com
Lithtech Team, Monolith Productions      -- http://www.lith.com
Listar Developer                         -- http://www.listar.org



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