message encapsulation in returned mail: a plea

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1 total messages Started by Kyle Jones Mon, 12 Feb 1990 20:18

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Author: Kyle Jones
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 20:18

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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.

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