Mark Martinec:
> 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.
In anticipation of UTF8SMTP support, I added an UTF-8 validator to
Postfix a while ago. This validator is currently used only in the
LDAP and SQLITE clients, which are known to require UTF-8. If
a string is not valid UTF-8, then it is not used in a query.
Wietse
