Re: IDN
Per Olof Ljungmark <[email protected]>
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Thank you for your reply - I meant exactly what I wrote - is it up to the delivery agent only (Postfix/lmpt in our case) to decide whether to accept a sender with 8bit characters in the address and if it does will cyrus digest it. Thanks /per On 12 May 2017 21:45:07 GMT+02:00, "Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat.com)" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Am 12.05.2017 um 19:39 schrieb Per olof Ljungmark ><[email protected]>: >> >> Does Cyrus Imap support IDN (International Domain Names) as sender >address or is it just the delivery agent that takes care of this? >Not sure, what you mean in detail. > >We successfully receive mail from IDN domain senders over EXIM / Cyrus, >while it is typically not a good idea to have any IDN domain in an >email address (lack of "standardization" / compatibility). But I’m not >sure how reliable this works. > >> Like, for instance, über or gösta. >> >> Then of course is the question if there is support for 8bit mailbox >names as well. >For that what i have seen - not really. > >In the past we recommended our users to avoid using i.e. german Umlauts >within folder names, even if they seems to get „converted“ by cyrus in >a working or even proper manner - there will be problems with several >IMAP clients not liking this, which still have problems with that on >their side… > > > >hth a bit >cheerioh, > > >Niels Dettenbach ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus