The flufl.bounce library provides a set of heuristics and an API for detecting the original bouncing email addresses from a bounce message. Many formats found in the wild are supported, as are VERP and RFC 3464 (DSN).
flufl.bounce requires Python 2.6 or newer, and is compatible with Python 3. The zope.interface package is a requirement.
A simple guide to using the library is available within this package, in the form of doctests. The manual is also available online in the Cheeseshop at:
The project home page is:
You should report bugs at:
You can download the latest version of the package either from the Cheeseshop:
or from the Launchpad page above. Of course you can also just install it with pip or easy_install from the command line:
% sudo pip install flufl.bounce
% sudo easy_install flufl.bounce
You may want to use virtualenv instead of installing the package into the system Python.
You can grab the latest development copy of the code using Bazaar, from the Launchpad home page above. See http://bazaar-vcs.org for details on the Bazaar distributed revision control system. If you have Bazaar installed, you can grab your own branch of the code like this:
bzr branch lp:flufl.bounce
You may contact the author via barry@python.org.
Copyright (C) 2004-2014 Barry A. Warsaw
This file is part of flufl.bounce.
flufl.bounce is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
flufl.bounce is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
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