On Mon, 8 May 2006, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 8 May 2006, Tony Finch wrote:
>
> > It would be good to improve Exim's standards-confrmance in this area.
>
> While remembering that there are (or at least there were - not sure how
> recently this was discussed) people who positively dislike
> MIME-formatted bounce messages. I am a bit agnostic myself, but
> certainly some of those that I see would be very intimidating to
> non-geek recipients.
I get the impression that MUAs are increasingly able to handle the
machine-readable part of a MIME bounce in a friendly way, so it should
be possible to make them *less* intimidating to non-geeks. One example
(from Ned Freed) is automatic translation of extendedstatuscodes into
the local language. However I haven't worked out a sensible way of
implementing ESCs in Exim without loads of ad-hockery or without
requiring the sysadmin to configure them explicitly (which implies
that the sysadmin should know how to choose them). And although they
have more information than basic SMTP status codes, they are still
rather limited. So it isn't a small project...
Tony.
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