Michael Str?der:
> wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote:
> > Michael Str?der:
> >> Does anybody here have experience with current usage of SMTPUTF8?
> >> I have a discussion whether that's already used in the wild or not.
> >>
> >> Given that e.g. SUSE Linux builds of postfix are currently not linked to
> >> libicu I assume that SMTPUTF8 is currently not widely used.
> >> How about other platforms?
> >
> > What mail products are SMTPUTF8-compliant at this time?
>
> Good question.
>
> I see that it's planned for upcoming exim 4.86:
> https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516
> But it's not in the ChangeLog of that release.
>
> So I interpret your question it as an answer:
> SMTPUTF8 is currently not widely used. ;-)
10 years ago, IPv6 implementation was driven by the concern that
everyone was going to suffer from unavailable IP addresses.
SMTPUTF8 is a usability upgrade for non-ASCII email addresses
(localparts and domains). 10 Years from now I expect that most email
products will support internationalized email addresses (whether
specified by SMTPUTF8 or some later standard).
Wietse
