Re: [exim] IDN conversion

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Author: Chris Lightfoot
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To: Renaud Allard
CC: exim users, W B Hacker
Subject: Re: [exim] IDN conversion
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:11:00PM +0100, Renaud Allard wrote:
>
>
> W B Hacker wrote:
> > Patrik Jansson wrote:
> >> I know that the whole thing to use åäö in a domain name is a bad idea.
> >> I'm against it myself even though I'm a Swede but still, it's possible
> >> and I would like our mail server to handle this case if possible.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> -Patrik
> >>
> >
> > Not sure how to test this, but I *suspect* Exim already handles it, or can do,
> > not by specific intent, but by general capability provided.
> >
>
> I am not sure it does. At least, mine doesn't.


now I actually come to grep the docs -- it does, but you
need allow_utf8_domains switched on. If the MUAs are
supplying UTF-8, anyway. If not further work is needed.

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