The bounce container is not the diagnosis.

Answer The bounce container is not the diagnosis. RFC 6522 describes the multipart/report media type used to carry mail-system reports. The container is not the reason the mail failed. The document is RFC 6522, titled The Multipart/Report Media Type. That is a fact about mail software. It is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in.

The note that started this: RFC 6522, The Multipart/Report Media Type, RFC 6522.

A rented send is one letter to someone else's list. When some of that mail fails, a mail system may send a report, and the report rides in a container. Seeing the container tells you a report arrived. It does not tell you why the letter failed, and it does not tell you whether the failure is the seller's to answer. Do not let anyone point at multipart/report and call the pointing a diagnosis.

If you use solo ads for affiliate marketing, a failed letter is not a click and a report container is not a reason you can repeat to a partner. You still need the list, the sending domain, and the refund line named on the order before the send. The container will not write them later. If the seller's whole explanation is the name of the media type, you do not yet have an explanation.

What is the bounce container?

RFC 6522 describes the multipart/report media type used to carry mail-system reports. The container is not the reason the mail failed.

Carry is the useful word. The media type is how a report is held. It is not the failure itself. A buyer who is shown the container, and nothing in plain words about what went wrong, is being shown a wrapper. You can acknowledge that a report exists. You cannot decide a refund from the wrapper alone, because the wrapper is not the reason. Ask what happened in language you could check without inventing a cause the document does not give you.

Sellers sometimes treat the arrival of any report as proof the list was bad, or as proof the creative was innocent. Neither conclusion is in the container's name. multipart/report means a mail-system report was carried. Stop there. If you cannot say more without guessing, say you do not know, and use the refund line you already wrote. Guessing a reason is how a software fact becomes a quarrel.

• multipart/report carries a mail-system report.
• The container is not the reason the mail failed.
• The container is not a diagnosis.
• The order still needs a refund line in plain words.

Does the container diagnose the failure?

No. The bounce container is not the diagnosis. The document is RFC 6522, titled The Multipart/Report Media Type. That is a fact about mail software. It is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in.

It is also not a price and not a rank. A seller who adds a surcharge because reports came back in this container is inventing a fee the document does not set. A seller who brags that few reports came back, and calls that a rank, is still not holding a diagnosis, and is still not holding proof that a stranger opted in. Count the conversation back to the order: which list, which sending domain, which refund line.

If you are the seller, do not deliver a stack of containers and call it accountability. Say what you know in ordinary words, and do not dress a guess as the media type. The buyer needs to know whether the letter went to the list they named. A container cannot answer that. Your records of the list and the domain can, and only if you wrote them down before you asked to be paid.

What should the order already say?

A buyer still has to name the list, the sending domain, and the refund line on the order. A report container does not replace that line.

Write the refund line while everyone is still calm, for a send that was not the letter or not the list. Do not wait until a report arrives and then discover the only sentence on the table is the name of a media type. The container will still not be the reason. You will just be arguing without the sentence you needed.

Before you buy solo ads, ask what the seller will say when a report shows up, and do not accept the container as that answer. The bounce container is not the diagnosis. Name the list, the sending domain, and the refund line, and leave RFC 6522 out of the price.