On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:57:56PM +0100, Mike Cardwell wrote:
> Just for an extra bit of information. Postfix already supports this:
>
> http://www.postfix.org/SMTPUTF8_README.html
Still a work-in-progress. Wietse frowns on half-measures, we do
it right, or not at all. Thus SMTPUTF8 is still only in a development
release, and may take multiple dev release cycles before it appears
in a stable release.
The easy part is supporting the protocol. The hard part is handling
UTF8 in all the legacy external interfaces:
* Access table lookups, and various SQL/LDAP APIs.
* TLS certificate name checks
* Address rewriting
* Mail logs
* mailq(1) output
* LDA interfaces
I'd like to encourage the Exim developers to not under-estimate
the complexity of this "feature". It needs to be thought about
carefully, and developed/deployed with great care.
This a major architectural change, and must not be a quick fix.
--
Viktor.
