Re: A patch to support unicode email addresses

2015-08-26 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > At any rate, I added RFC6531/6855 support to mutt. Please pull: > > https://bitbucket.org/arnt/mutt/commits/a83a4387c35384eccd3a11d74b8db4ebbb185d30 > > Some earlier changesets need to be reverted. mutt_idna.c may have been a > fine idea, but using idna in mail didn't ge

Re: subscribe

2015-08-26 Thread arnt
I will reply properly when I am back at my keyboard this weekend. Just one thing now: the two extensions are subtly but crucially incompatible. Nothing in 653x requires a receiver to support idna (or a-label encoding of local parts), or to treat them the same way as u-labels. The sender has t

Re: A patch to support unicode email addresses

2015-08-26 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
a...@gulbrandsen.priv.no wrote: > I will reply properly when I am back at my keyboard this weekend. Just one > thing now: the two extensions are subtly but crucially incompatible. > > Nothing in 653x requires a receiver to support idna (or a-label encoding of > local parts), or to treat them the s

Re: subscribe

2015-08-26 Thread arnt
Suppose you receive mail from my Unicode address. When you compose your reply, you do not know whether my SMTP server accepts an a-label form of any domains in your reply, so when you want to formulate a Unicode domain in your reply (header or SMTP), you cannot write if/then logic to pick the b

Re: A patch to support unicode email addresses

2015-08-26 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
a...@gulbrandsen.priv.no wrote: > Suppose you receive mail from my Unicode address. When you compose your > reply, you do not know whether my SMTP server accepts an a-label form of any > domains in your reply Not true. Please again see rfc6531 section 3.2, paragraph 2, sentence 3. > , so when yo

Re: subscribe

2015-08-26 Thread arnt
I will reread and answer when I have a screen bigger than a keyhole, OK? Arnt