It appears that Viktor Dukhovni via Exim-dev <[email protected]> said: >> No, what I was testing was the domain names in Received headers, the FROM >> and BY clauses. Discussions in the IETF have told us that it >is a religious issue whether you consider Return-Path to be a trace field. > >I see, but the domains in question are: > > * "from": The EHLO name sent by the peer before SMTPUTF8 is announced, > So necessarily ASCII. > * "by": The receiving system name announced in the SMTP greeting also > before SMTPUTF8 is announced, so again necessarily ASCII. > >If the specification in 3.7.3 expects these to be transformed to Unicode >in the trace headers even though they're sent and received as A-labels >in the actual SMTP dialogue, then I am not impressed by the specification.
No doubt, but the RFC says what it says. You know Yao, you can ask him what the motivation was. R's, John -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
