Sisimai: Mail Analyzing Interface

What is Sisimai ?

Sisimai is a library that decodes complex and diverse bounce emails and outputs the results of the delivery failure, such as the reason for the bounce and the recipient email address, in structured data. It is also possible to output in JSON format.

As of February 2025, the Go language version of Sisimai is available as a beta release. Before the official release, the API may undergo significant specification changes, and unexpected behavior or crashes may occur. The official version v5.2.0 is scheduled to be released by the summer of 2025.
The latest stable version is Sisimai 5.1.0 , released on Monday, 1st July 2024. The main changes in this version are the complete removal of v4 compatibility features, DMA: DragonFly Mail Agent bounce email support, and the update of error codes for Yahoo Inc. and others.
For details on the all changes in Sisimai 5.1.0, please see the release notes. Please check Differences with Sisimai 4 page for the breaking changes in Sisimai 5.
Sisimai versions 4.25.14p11 and earlier contain a regular expression vulnerability (ReDoS: CVE-2022-4891). If you are using one of these versions, please upgrade to v4.25.14p12 or later.

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Sisimai is a library to decode bounce mails for UNIX mbox format files and those in Maildir/ directories.

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Detect Bounce Reasons

Sisimai can decode 34 bounce reasons, including common errors such as "userunknown", "mailboxfull", and "rejected".

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Data Structure

The data of bounce emails decoded by Sisimai is structured and can also be output in JSON format.

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73 Decoding Engines

Sisimai can decode bounce emails from open-source MTAs, commercial MTAs, email appliances, and well-known email services.

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Sisimai decodes over 110 million bounce emails every month worldwide.

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vs. bounceHammer

In the summer of 2014, the Perl version of Sisimai(pronounced as 'shi-shi-mai') was developed to solve several critical problems with the decoding accuracy of bounceHammer, including: Inability to decode multiple bounces in a single email, Large number of dependent modules, some of which are no longer maintained, Inability to work with Perl 5.16 or later.

Sisimai is now about 2.2 times faster than bounceHammer and has twice the decoding accuracy. The Ruby version of Sisimai was released on February 3, 2016.

And on February 2, 2024, the 10th anniversary of the release of Sisimai, we released Sisimai 5.0.0, which can detect modern bounces such as those related to domain authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, ARC) and reputation-based errors.

Analytical Precision Ratio

100%

59%

The Speed Of Decoding 1000 Emails

2.2s

4.24s

Detectable Bounce Reasons

34

19

The Number Of MTA/ESP Modules

73

15

Dependent External Modules

2

24

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Years of Release

Can Detect

34

Bounce Reasons

Have

73

Engine Modules

Only

2

External Modules Required

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The latest version is 5.1.0, released on Monday, 1st July 2024. As of February 2025, the Go language version of Sisimai is available as a beta release.

Sisimai can run on any OS where Perl or Ruby works, such as *BSD, macOS, and Linux. Sisimai 4.22.5 and later may run with ActivePerl on Windows. .

It is important to review the release notes and the differences with Sisimai 4 page before installing or upgrading, as there are several breaking changes in Sisimai 5.0.0 that may affect your use of the software.

Perl Version

  • Release version
  • v4: Perl 5.10.1 - 5.24.4
  • v5: Perl 5.26.0 - 5.40.0
  • CPAN
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Ruby Version

  • Release version
  • v4: Ruby 2.1.0 - 3.3.0
  • v5: Ruby 2.4.0 - 3.3.0
  • JRuby 9.2 - 9.4
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Go Version

  • Beta version
  • Sisimai 5 Only
  • Go 1.17 -
  • Coming soon
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Fork on GitHub

  • Development Version
  • p5-sisimai (Perl)
  • rb-sisimai (Ruby)
  • 4-stable, 5-stable
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Support

Sisimai is an open-source library licensed under the two-clause BSD license, so anyone can use it freely. However, Cubicroot Corporation Limited, the developer of Sisimai, offers products and services to support the following:

  • Building an environment for bounce mail decoding
  • Developing scripts around Sisimai
  • Designing and managing a database for storing decoded data
  • Continuous bounce management
  • Migrating from the bounce mail decoding system bounceHammer
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