[comp.mail.misc] message encapsulation in returned mail: a plea

kjones@talos.uu.net (Kyle Jones) (02/13/90)

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.