Does hotmail use ARF for its feedback loop message?

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I am working on a program to parse ARF (Abure Reporting Format) messages. It turns out I need to be able to handle Hotmail feedback loop messages as well.

Does hotmail use ARF for its feedback loop message? If not, which format is it using?

I found this site providing a perl parser to convert hotmail messages to ARF format which make me think it is not using it.

I read somewhere it was using JMR (Junk Mail Reporting) but I can't found any example of such a message on the Internet.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 06 '14 at 17:47

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Microsoft, as usual, has come up with their own proprietary alternative to the standard (at least they're consistent, I guess) called JMR - Junk Mail Reporting.

answered Jan 06 '14 at 17:47

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 28 '12 at 13:21

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No, unlike e.g. AOL Hotmail doesn't use the ARF. Instead you'll get emails with the subject "complaint about message from [ip]* from "staff@hotmail.com", which contain the original body.

answered Jun 28 '12 at 13:21

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Do you have a source/citation for that? – RustyTheBoyRobot Jun 28 '12 at 20:25
A colleague who is one of the deliverability managers of the email service provider which I'm working for. He looked it up in the logs. – lukeA Jun 28 '12 at 23:19

Does hotmail use ARF for its feedback loop message?

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