On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Marc CASTEELS wrote:
For a certain e-mail application, I have to send out a standard
message
for all mail being addressed to people who are no longer there or
mailboxes that were closed.
I have to build the text and format of the automatic reply, and I
would
like to find information or instructions of how I can build the most
effective message that tells in fact a "NOTIFICATION OF NON-DELIVERY".
This will also go as reply on SPAM mails, which I hate.
Because preferably the system should specifically NOT reply to SPAM
mails..
If this is being issued from a mail server, the server itself should
take care of the bounce notice along with proper failure codes.
If you are trying to simulate such a server based bounce message via
an email client, that is different. If you are trying to do this
using Emailer, I am fairly sure there is an applescript out there
that will do this. It will generate a new outgoing email addressed to
the sender of the email you selected, and format the email to appear
as a standard bounce message.
However, this will still lack the appropriate 5xx failure code
because that can only be handled at the time of actual submission
attempt. So the fact that the mail server already accepted the mail
for delivery means it is too late to issue that failure. But, that
doesn't necessarily mean anything, as it isn't uncommon for mail
servers to accept an email that isn't actually being delivered
locally thus a bounce is created later down the line (as the
applescript will do).
Also, there is probably little reason to send bounce messages to
spam. The addresses in spam are either not actually affiliated with
the sender (ie: harvested from elsewhere so you will just annoy
someone that had nothing to do with it), or are totally bogus address
and will only result in a bounce coming back to you saying your fake
bounce message couldn't be delivered. This of course may not apply to
"legit" marketing email that you may get and consider spam (as many
of us do).
-chris
<www.mythtech.net>
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