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I'm working on building a feature for a larger system that will be able to parse and react to dsn bounce messages received from all different types of smtp servers.

It be great to test the code I write by reading a bunch of txt files containing examples of the types of bounce messages that might be encountered out in the wild ;-)

Anyone have any suggestions on where to find a bunch of test dsn messages lying around? Or any thoughts on how to create some good test data?

UPDATE: I found a ton of good test data inside this project: https://github.com/rjbs/mail-deliverystatus-bounceparser/tree/master/t/corpus

Upgradingdave
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(The comment was somewhat flippant, but it's what I'd do. Since you say it's working, I thought I'd make it an actual answer.)

Send out messages to made-up users at domains chosen (almost) at random. You could use:

  • big companies (Google, MS, etc.)
  • companies that friends work at (slightly mis-type their names)
  • companies/domains that you have any email from

In order to get a responses from a range of mailers, you'll have to look at headers of all your existing email messages and see what other people are using.

Ward
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