bounce-email

This Ruby library is for determining the bounce type of an email message. It determines whether the bounce is hard or soft, if is an "out of office mail", etc.

Follow this tutorial to handle bounce-emails: http://keakaj.com/wisdom/2007/08/08/verp-on-rails

Basic usage:

 require "bounce_email"

 bounce = BounceEmail::Mail.new(STDIN.read)

 # Do something with bounce info
 bounce.bounced? # true/false
 bounce.code # e.g. "5.1.1"
 bounce.reason # e.g. "Something about the address specified in the message caused this DSN."
 bounce.type  #  "Permanent Failure", "Persistent Transient Failure", "Success" -- BounceEmail::TYPE_HARD_FAIL, TYPE_SOFT_FAIL, TYPE_SUCCESS

Compatible with Ruby 1.9.x, 2.0.0, 2.1.0, and 2.2.0.

It is no longer tested under 1.8.7, but it should work there as well, if you use it with an older version of the mime-types gem (from the 1.x branch). mime-types is a dependency of the mail gem, which currently works with mime-types 1.6+, so it should be possible.

mail gem is required with bounce_email gem. The mail gem is used for primary bounce handling, which catches about 50% of all bounces. bounce_email tries to catch remaining bounce emails.

See discussion here: mikel/mail#103

• (PERL) https://github.com/rjbs/mail-deliverystatus-bounceparser

• Mode code cleanup.
• Don't hardcode comparison strings, move to external file which can be extended easily.
• More test: extend for more bounces.
• Is OUT of office type needed? If yes, implement as an optional part.
• Merge into Mail Gem?

Please fork on github & add new conditions under "get_status_from_text" if you discover creative new mailserver responses.

Updated by Pedro Visintin 2010 Updated by Tobias Bielohlawek 2011

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