[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         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
 Summary            | Can't send mails to IDN-domains (umlaut-domains)
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | 4.1.4
 Type               | Enhancement
-State              | Accepted
+State              | Feedback
 Priority           | 3. High
 Owners             | Horde Developers, Michael Slusarz
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2007-03-30 14:17) wrote:

> 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.