Re: [exim] IDN conversion

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Author: Chris Lightfoot
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To: Patrik Jansson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] IDN conversion
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:24:22PM +0100, Patrik Jansson wrote:
    [...]

> > oh, sure, but my assumption is that Patrik's users' MUAs
> > aren't obeying the RFC, and he wants exim to make the
> > best of a bad job by transcoding whatever they *are*
> > presenting to the server into punicode. But I may have
> > misunderstood.
> >
>
> No, that's exactly what I want! Some MUAs like Thunderbird doesn't seem to
> convert the domain and in that case I would like Exim to do the work
> instead.


see my later message -- you need allow_utf8_domains.

> When I tried to send a mail (with telnet) I got the error:
> 501-<teståäö.se>: domain missing or malformed.
> How do I determine the encoding?
> I could give any of you access to a domain with åäö for test purpose,
> they are
> registered for free in Sweden this year out :)


free if they contain accented characters, or free in
general? grep se$ /usr/dict/words suggests a number of
good possibilities... ;-)

-- 
Q - What warning was given by you?              A - Horn
Q - What warning was given by the other party?  A - Moo 
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