Chris Lightfoot wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:34:41PM +0100, Renaud Allard wrote: >> I have just set the allow_utf8_domains to true. Now exim accepts my mail >> to [EMAIL PROTECTED] But it doesn't seem to understand the domain name. >> >> 2006-10-31 20:30:36 1GezJj-0007mM-CI ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mail domain >> "l\303\263rien.net" is syntactically invalid > > see the spec -- you also need to change dns_check_names_pattern, > or set it to the empty string. > > > (None of this is doing anything to convince me that IDN is > anything other than a trainwreck in the making, btw.) >
You are not alone - but I don't expect them to listen to Vint Cerf, either. The core of the problem is that we mapped nearly everything to *any* specific natonal-language-associated codeset in the first place, as that immediately brings in national/ethnic identities and all that sort of politics. Best would be as IP numbers are. Numbers. Don't care what *you* call 'em. mate. Or what display notation rocks yer boat. CIDR. hex, binary, octal. So long as the binary number is the same. IOW - I don't see this working unless *all* encoding/display is left in the very outermost ring. And that does not fly with DNS 'as we now know it'. OTOH, there is precedence for something that MIGHT work: Dial 1-800-<whatever> is of no concern to the telco signalling system *whatsoever* Bill -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
