fun with email

I'm sure you've seen a "message undeliverable" from your email program at some point (something from an address such as mailer-daemon@yourcompany.com), but have you ever actually read the email?

Because of some email drama we're having, I decided to read all the text, and was surprised to find myself chuckling. Usually, these things are pretty dry and mostly full of technical speak, but ours goes something like this:

"I'm afraid I had problems forwarding your message. Full details follow:

Subject: 'blah blah blah'
Date: 'Wed, 1 Nov 2006 04:21:25 -0600'

1 error(s):

SMTP Server <64.97.139.1> rejected recipient 'some.guy@hiscompany.com' (Error following RCPT command). It responded as follows: [550 RCPT TO: 'some.guy@hiscompany.com' User unknown]

I have also attached the mail's original headers. Sorry it didn't work out."

"Sorry it didn't work out." - ???

It sounds like someone's breaking up with me. "Hey...thanks for giving it a go with this (email) relationship, but...I'm sorry...it didn't work out - you're just not my type."

I'm sure some IT guy who was bored to tears or just having a tiny bit of fun wrote that...it's good to have a little fun with otherwise boring tasks. I'm sure that's why there are so many funnies buried in all the Microsoft applications.