Baunsu

Baunsu (bounce in japanese) is an email bounce detection library inspired by Lamson Project's bounce detection algorithm.

Usage

var fs = require('fs'),
  Baunsu = require('baunsu');
 
fs.readFile('./bouncedEmail.txt', function(err, data) {
  var bounce = new Baunsu();
 
  bounce.on('end', function(err, baunsuResult) {
    if (err)
      throw err;
 
    console.log(baunsuResult.bounced);
  });
 
  bounce.detect(data);
});

Note:

The bouncedEmail.txt must contains a 'bounced error mail'. You can find examples in the tests/emails directory

These mails are returned by a mailserver when it can't deliver the message.

You can use this module by hooking it to your mailserver whenever a bounced mail is received, and do something for it (such as flagging the email address, preventing further bounces)

Installation

npm install baunsu

Baunsu API

Methods:

detect(msg: Buffer or string)

Detects bounce signatures in email asynchronously.

detectSync(msg: Buffer or string)

Detects bounce signatures in email and returns a BaunsuResult object.

Events:

'line': function(line) {}

Emits every line being walked by baunsu.

'match': function(match) {}

Emitted every time a bounce header is matched. { header: string, match: string }

'detect': function(detect) {}

Emiited every time bounce signature is detected. { header: string, matches: array }

'end': function(baunsuResult) {}

Emitted at the end of bounce detection.

Baunsu Result

Properties:

matches

Returns a hash of matched email headers and regex values. (Hasshu instance)

score

Calculated score determining bounce probabilty.

bounced

Returns true/false if email is considered bounce. (Can be adjusted by threshold)

threshold

Sets bounce score threshold. Default is 0.3.

status

Returns object containing enhanced status code, class, subject and detail.

{
  code: string,
  class: { code: number, message: '' },
  subject: { code: number, message: '' },
  detail: { code: number, message: '' }
}

remoteMta

Returns array if remote mta headers were found.

reportingMta

Returns array if reporting mta headers were found.

diagnosticCodes

Returns array if diagnostic codes were found.

action

Returns action value if header was found.

Methods:

isHard()

Returns true if email is considered a hard bounce.

isSoft()

Returns true if email is considered a soft bounce.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Ardie Saeidi

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