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# Copyright (C) 2010 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is part of GNU Mailman.
#
# GNU Mailman is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
# the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
# Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
# any later version.
#
# GNU Mailman 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 General Public License for
# more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
# GNU Mailman.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

"""Interface to bounce detection components."""

from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals

__metaclass__ = type
__all__ = [
    'IBounceDetector',
    'NonFatal',
    ]


from zope.interface import Interface



# Matching addresses were found, but they were determined to be non-fatal.  In
# this case, processing is halted but no bounces are registered.
NonFatal = object()



class IBounceDetector(Interface):
    """Detect a bounce in an email message."""

    def process(self, msg):
        """Scan an email message looking for bounce addresses.

        :param msg: An email message.
        :type msg: `Message`
        :return: The detected bouncing addresses.  When bouncing addresses are
            found but are determined to be non-fatal, the special marker
            `NonFatal` can be returned to halt any bounce processing
            pipeline.  None can be returned if no addresses are found.
        :rtype: A sequence of strings, None, or NonFatal.
        """