On 08/06/06, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Keep in mind that so long as the repository name has anything to do with the local part of the SMTP address, there are required minimum lengths. See RFC 2821 section 4.5.3.1. The minimum for the local part is 64 characters, so the proposed change would not put us out of compliance with the RFC.
There are also character set constraints [1] which suggest that the correct solution to this issue is to force the use of ASCII and not use UTF-8. SMTP is an ASCII only transport. Everything including headers and contents should be encoded to allow the transport using only ASCII or raw bytes (this is basically what MIME does). James will therefore work very happily within the domain of "e-mail" supporting (or not) every charater set and content type which email allows requiring only the ASCII charater set on the tables. IOW I think UTF-8 would be wasted on James anyway. d. [1] (from rfc 2821): "Systems MUST NOT define mailboxes in such a way as to require the use in SMTP of non-ASCII characters (octets with the high order bit set to one) or ASCII "control characters" (decimal value 0-31 and 127)." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
