Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 2730] New: EAI trace information doesn't…

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Autor: John Levine
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Assumpte: Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 2730] New: EAI trace information doesn't log domains as U-labels
It appears that Viktor Dukhovni via Exim-dev <exim-dev@???> said:
>> No, what I was testing was the domain names in Received headers, the FROM and BY clauses. Discussions in the IETF have told us that it
>is a religious issue whether you consider Return-Path to be a trace field.
>
>I see, but the domains in question are:
>
>   * "from": The EHLO name sent by the peer before SMTPUTF8 is announced,
>             So necessarily ASCII.
>   * "by":   The receiving system name announced in the SMTP greeting also
>             before SMTPUTF8 is announced, so again necessarily ASCII.

>
>If the specification in 3.7.3 expects these to be transformed to Unicode
>in the trace headers even though they're sent and received as A-labels
>in the actual SMTP dialogue, then I am not impressed by the specification.


No doubt, but the RFC says what it says. You know Yao, you can ask him
what the motivation was.

R's,
John