[EXIM] multipart/report delivery status messages

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Autor: Paul Makepeace
Datum:  
To: exim-users
Betreff: [EXIM] multipart/report delivery status messages
Is there any work going/gone on/planned to enable exim to report delivery
status notifications using RFC1892 multipart/report MIME messages? At
present it seems to just appends the full headers and body to the
human-readable delivery report (which isn't terribly pleasant if the
message is a large JPEG image ;-). It would be great to have errors
reported in a message/rfc822 attachment.

RFC1892 says:

<snip>
The Multipart/Report content-type contains either two or three sub-
parts, in the following order:

   (1) [required]  The first body part contains human readable message.
       The purpose of this message is to provide an easily-understood
       description of the condition(s) that caused the report to be
       generated, for a human reader who may not have an user agent
       capable of interpreting the second section of the
       Multipart/Report.


       The text in the first section may be in any MIME standards-track
       content-type, charset, or language.  Where a description of the
       error is desired in several languages or several media, a
       Multipart/Alternative construct may be used.


       This body part may also be used to send detailed information
       that cannot be easily formatted into a Message/Report body part.


   (2) [required]  A machine parsable body part containing an account
       of the reported message handling event. The purpose of this body
       part is to provide a machine-readable description of the
       condition(s) which caused the report to be generated, along with
       details not present in the first body part that may be useful to
       human experts.  An initial body part, Message/delivery-status is
       defined in [DSN]


   (3) [optional]  A body part containing the returned message or a
       portion thereof.  This information may be useful to aid human
       experts in diagnosing problems.  (Although it may also be useful
       to allow the sender to identify the message which the report was
       issued, it is hoped that the envelope-id and original-recipient-
       address returned in the Message/Report body part will replace
       the traditional use of the returned content for this purpose.)
</snip>


Cheers,
Paul

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