Re: What's a DSN?

[Sam]

Russell Nelson writes:

> Delivery Status Notice.  It's an attempt to solve every possible
> problem related to email delivery, including bounces, delayed
> messages, vacation responses, and changes of email address.
> Unfortunately, it's so complicated that it hasn't had sufficient
> penetration to be really useful.

DSNs are not that complicated.  I'm coding a custom mail relay for internal
use.  Adding DSN support was not exactly trivial, but it wasn't a herculean
effort either.  It will take you several weeks to figure out what the RFCs
are talking about, true, but that's pretty much the case with any RFC. 
Once the gory details sink into your skull, it's trivially easy to generate
one, or parse one.

-- 
Sam