Re: First strawman for UTF-8 headers proposal

At 4:23 AM +0000 12/1/03, Adam M. Costello wrote:
>Suppose I'm not familiar with ASCII characters, so you tell me your
>non-ASCII address, which I remember and later type into my MUA.  If
>there is no ACE form for my MUA to use, then the only way for that
>message to find you is if you can associate your domain name with a mail
>exchanger that supports non-ASCII directly, or with an address-mapping
>server.

Er, no. If your MUA is enabled for UTF-8 headers, it works fine, 
assuming that the intervening SMTP servers also support UTF-8 
headers. You don't *need* to have a map, you only need one if you 
want to assure no bounces.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium