Jeroen Geilman wrote: > Urgh. Which RFC are you reading ? > I quote: > Systems MUST NOT define mailboxes in such a way as to require the use > in SMTP of non-ASCII characters
True (tell it to generators of malicious mail or just incompetent sending sw). This does not prevent illegal data to appear on the wire on the receiving MTA. Receiving such data must not cause MTA or SQL to malfunction. There is also an initiative to allow UTF-8 characters to appear in SMTP (RFC 5336 and related documents). A malformed UTF-8 could easily appear there, despite being prohibited. If an SQL database would declare an e-mail address field of an UTF-8 data type, a lookup could abort when given such invalid data. Mark
