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.