wodPop3 ActiveX Control - DeliveryDelayed Method
      
 

Description

Returns email address in delivery delayed message.


Return Type

A String value.  


Syntax

object.DeliveryDelayed



The DeliveryDelayed Method syntax has these parts:

Part Description
object An expression evaluating to an object of type Pop3Msg.

Remarks

DeliveryDelayed method check the message and try to determine if it's coming from MAILER-DAEMON or POSTMASTER account, notifying you that delivery of the message is delayed, for whatever reason. Typically, these bounced messages have subject "Warning: could not send message for past XY hours", and messages look like this:

**********************************************
** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY **
** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE **
**********************************************

The original message was received at Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:38:01 +0200
from some.host.com [111.22.33.44]

----- Transcript of session follows -----
<joe@usa.net>... Deferred: Connection timed out with some.host.com.
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old

 
When such message is found, wodPop3 will try to find email address of person that was unable to receive the message. This is very handy if you work with mailing lists and need to remove such emails from your local database.