Xref: utzoo comp.mail.headers:543 comp.mail.misc:2931
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!mephisto!mcnc!rti!talos!kjones
From: kjones@talos.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc
Subject: message encapsulation in returned mail: a plea
Message-ID: <1990Feb12.201849.28525@talos.uu.net>
Date: 12 Feb 90 20:18:49 GMT
Reply-To: kyle@xanth.cs.odu.edu
Lines: 12

If any of you are writing a new mail delivery agent, and this agent
returns a copy of a message upon unsuccessful delivery, please take a
look at RFC 934, "Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation", before
inventing another way to encapsulate messages.

I'm maintaing a mail reader that tries to recognize and extract returned
mail.  At present an if-clause is required for every different delivery
agent, because they all have a different way of heralding the beginning
of an undelivered message.

I'd love to see existing delivery agents adopt the standard as well,
but at the very least I hope no new mailers will ignore it.