Sam writes:
> Russell Nelson writes:
> > I don't know about that. When I hit Alt-R in XEmacs's VM facility, I
> > get the message in a message-send buffer, ready to be edited and
> > re-sent. Perhaps other MUA software isn't as good, but that's
> > something the users of the MUA could ask the author of the MUA to fix.
>
> Perhaps XEmacs understands the Qmail bounce format, but other MUAs don't.
> I don't think the MUAs' authors will consider as a defect their software's
> inability to parse a bounce format that's specific to Qmail only.
Of course it's a defect, because *every* MTA has its own peculiar
bounce format. There is no standard for bounce messages -- not one
that's followed anyway -- so any usable retry mechanism has to
understand many formats.
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