From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 20:05:04 -0700
Subject: Re: Applescript similar to OS X Mail.app's "bounce mail" feature?
On 10/11/01 10:24 PM, I wrote:
> We can think about it better if you tell us what the bounce mail feature
> does. Being a devout Entourage user, I have never opened the Mail.app
> since the day I installed OS X.
>
All right already! I've received four (or five) examples of bounced
messages, all, for some reason, sent directly to me instead of to this list.
You'll notice above I said "if you tell <us>...", not "me." I never meant
<I> would do this script. I'm going to be very busy the next several weeks
and won't have time to look into this. I've asked one person to send an
example of a bounced message to the list, so anyone who cares to can think
about writing a script. I think it ought to be feasible, but I am not sure.
Here’s a bounced back test message, including full headers for whoever wants to take a look. A few notes I also shared with Allen: Bounced mail is moved immediately to the trash and the reply happens in the background, completely automated. Also, it seems the actual return to sender mail it sends is deleted permanently, because none of them have ever appeared in my sent mail or deleted mail folder.
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Date: Fri Oct 12, 2001 09:13:37 PM US/Eastern
To: Laurie A. Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
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The original message was received at 2001-10-12 21:10:14 -0400
from postoffice. [10.0.0.1]
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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... while talking to postoffice..:
RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown
Reporting-MTA: dns; postoffice.
Received-From-MTA: DNS; postoffice.
Arrival-Date: 2001-10-12 21:10:14 -0400
Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; postoffice.
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP;550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Last-Attempt-Date: 2001-10-12 21:10:14 -0400
From: Laurie A. Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri Oct 12, 2001 09:12:56 PM US/Eastern
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: bounce test
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Laurie
