Re: [Exim] Exim 4 wishlist

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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A: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Cc: exim-users
Asunto: Re: [Exim] Exim 4 wishlist
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> AFAIK, the translation to unicode etc is done at the client end, using special
> browsers you can download from the registrar's site
>
> At the server end, it stays as ascii (though totally gibberish ascii such as
> fgry3yerytegsfgr4334.drwy or something).


As it has to, if the mail being transferred is to follow RFCs 822 and
821, which specify only ascii.

> Exim won't have to do anything
> (except when, perhaps, domain names grow significantly longer - several
> languages are polysyllabic in nature, and have far longer words than english
> does)


The DNS has a limit on domain name length. If that's too short, a lot
more than Exim is in trouble.

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