Email Bounce Detection

[madhav]

On Jun 27, 12:34 pm, Maric Michaud <ma... at aristote.info> wrote:
> Le Friday 27 June 2008 09:03:15 madhav, vous avez écrit :
>
> > Hello everybody, I need a mechanism to detect email bounces. I tried
> > browsing through smtplib implementation and found not helpful in this
> > case. Actually it is said in the documentation that if a mail is sent
> > to say: "somerandomn... at randomorg.com", then "_send()" in the
> > SMTPConnection class returns 550(Unknown recceipient). I checked the
> > same but its not returning 550 and return 250(receipient ok).
>
> This is not the same scenario, the SMTP server that will respond 550 is the MX
> for the domain, if you send your mails using an outgoing SMTP server, it
> can't know in advance the list of remote adressesbut will bounce your message
> when receiving the 550 from the remote MX.
>
> > Later, I tried getting the smtp error code from the mail body of a
> > bounced msg. the "Message" class doesnot have any error code attribute
> > by default. We need to get it from the mailbody(by regex ing), which i
> > think is not a valid solution, as "550" can occur anywhere in the body
> > of any message otherthan the bounced msg also.
> > Please help me regarding this.
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> Bounces are multipart messages easily parsed with the email package of the
> stdlib (dont' use regexes here).
>
> Abounce message is of type :
>
> Content-Type: multipart/report;
>   report-type=delivery-status;  
>
> a delivery-status imply that one of the subpart of the message is a
> message/delivery-status with all needed infos set in the headers. This one is
> taken from a real example :
>
> Content-Description: Delivery report
> Content-Type: message/delivery-status
>
> Reporting-MTA: dns; aristote.info
> X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 1D07D1409FF
> X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; ma... at aristote.info
> Arrival-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:10:14 +0200 (CEST)
>
> Final-Recipient: rfc822; unknownadr... at nerim.net
> Original-Recipient: rfc822;unknownadr... at nerim.net
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.0.0
> Remote-MTA: dns; tyrande.nerim.net
> Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 <unknownadr... at nerim.net>: Recipient address
> rejected:
>     User unknown in local recipient table
>
> So, for example :
>
> >>>[48]: import email
> >>>[49]: bounce = email.message_from_string(open('ex.eml').read())
> >>>[50]: bounce.get_content_type()
>
> ...[50]: 'multipart/report'
>
> >>>[51]:
> >>>[52]: for i in bounce.get_payload() :
>
>    ....:    if i.get_content_type() == 'message/delivery-status' :
>    ....:         print i.get_payload()[1]['status']
>    ....:
>    ....:
> 5.0.0
>
> --
> _____________
>
> Maric Michaud

Thankyou somuch Maric. Will try the approach you have mentioned. :)