Subject: [idn] Re: IDN with Postifx

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:41:25 +0100

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 04:37:20PM -0500,
 Wietse Venema <[email-masked]> wrote 
 a message of 31 lines which said:

> SMTP requires seven-bit addresses including domains. Upgrade your
> SMTP client, please.

Right (and RFC 3490 exists precisely for that reason), but Postfix
*could* add some IDN support. Advices welcome:

* Allowing Unicode domain names in main.cf
(mydestination=académie-française.fr). Open issue: how to find the
encoding of main.cf? Forcing UTF-8?

* Trying to implement RFC 3490 in bounce messages generated by Postfix
(currently, they show the ACE, ASCII-Compatible Encoding, like
xn--acadmie-franaise-npb1a.fr). Open issue: what encoding for the
bounce message?