Tickets :: Comment on [#5180] Can't send mails to IDN-domains (umlaut-domains)

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Comment	>> Uh, why? So far this almost only a nice marketing gag, that noone > >> uses seriously. Not even all DNS servers have been updated to make > >> this work. > >> It's a nice to have, but definitely not high priority. > > > > Well it is an established RFC, and without this support is entirely > impossible to send to these e-mail addresses, so I think that makes > it an important bug to fix (ex. consider a site running IMP 4.2 4 > years from now when everyone is using IDN.) Whether other tools down > the mail chain fail to send these messages is irrelevant. > > > > More important, the fix to make this work was pretty easy. We just > need to make sure before we send a message that we encode. We can > carry around the unencode address at all other times internally. > > > > http://lists.horde.org/archives/cvs/Week-of-Mon-20070326/066469.html > > > > This still leaves the issue of decoding these IDN e-mail addresses > for display purposes, but that is a UI enhancement request rather > than a bug.
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