Re: [exim] IDN conversion

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Author: Chris Lightfoot
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To: Renaud Allard
CC: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] IDN conversion
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:34:41PM +0100, Renaud Allard wrote:
>
> I have just set the allow_utf8_domains to true. Now exim accepts my mail
> to n@lórien.net. But it doesn't seem to understand the domain name.
>
> 2006-10-31 20:30:36 1GezJj-0007mM-CI ** n@lórien.net: mail domain
> "l\303\263rien.net" is syntactically invalid


see the spec -- you also need to change dns_check_names_pattern,
or set it to the empty string.


(None of this is doing anything to convince me that IDN is
anything other than a trainwreck in the making, btw.)

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