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

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=5180
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 Ticket             | 5180
 Updated By         | web_horde at r2-passion.net
 Summary            | Can't send mails to IDN-domains (umlaut-domains)
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | 4.1.4
 Type               | Enhancement
 State              | Accepted
 Priority           | 3. High
 Owners             | Horde Developers, Michael Slusarz
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web_horde at r2-passion.net (2007-03-30 06:07) wrote:

> It's a nice to have, but definitely not high priority.
Okay. It's not so important to give it the highes priority.

> 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.
No, that's not right. DENIC offers umlaut domains. The name resulution
still works with current DNS servers as these domain names will be encoded
to regular ascii caracters.

I have access to the statistics of a large german webhoster which hosts
far over 100.000 domains. At the moment, 2.77 % of the customers have
umlaut domains. This value is constantly improving.

The customers want to use the horde webmailer but can not send emails to
umlaut domains. Maybe it is not so important to implement this feature
with highest priority, but it still a missing and requested feature.

I think it is worth to implement this feature as soon as possible.