Michael Kochendoerfer wrote:
> Arno,
> 
> generally, the program should be able to extract the most important
> information of an automated reply to a mail, i.e. from a mailserver
> when the destination is unknown, mailbox is full, relaying isn't
> allowed and the like. Some mailservers seem to return the original
> mail completely, including all original attachments. But those aren't
> of any interest ;)

Ok, then just exclude text attachments from being parsed (disposition
attachment at least). There are text/plain, text/html and even text/rtf
parts though I guess most servers reply text/plain with 7-bit ASCII
encoding.  
 
> 
> The program is meant to act as a feed for a database containing some
> mail addresses, and does some action there (delete mail addresses
> which don't exist, put a note on mail addresses where the mailbox is
> full, and the like). But the most difficult job would be to determine
> which failure is described where and how, in each reply....

That's true, since there are probably as many different replies
possible as mail servers exist. 
 
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