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Bug 571376 - Evolution does not support IDN and sends non-ascii characters to SMTP Server
Evolution does not support IDN and sends non-ascii characters to SMTP Server
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 486018
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.26.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[smtp]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-02-12 00:47 UTC by Michael Flaig
Modified: 2013-09-13 00:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26



Description Michael Flaig 2009-02-12 00:47:04 UTC
Please describe the problem:
Evolution does handle IDN Domains badly. Non-ASCII characters are sent to the smtp server. This needs a fix, either by checking for non-ASCII characters or by Implementing IDN support (preferred). Please have a look at RFC 3490 and libidn

My Evo is current Ubuntu Jaunty Version

Steps to reproduce:
1. Try sending mail to trash@şøñđëřżēıċħęŋđőmæîņĭśŧşũþėŗ.de
2. Check what is sent to the smtp server


Actual results:
RCPT TO: Contains non-ASCII characters

Expected results:
Conversion into trash@xn--m-4fanol5b8b4f5bcu8cu9qrdqc8wzcufrf0a1d2dta3r1b87a.de

Does this happen every time?
Of course

Other information:
trash address goes to /dev/null according to blog of domain owner (FH), so I assume it is okay if you use it for testing as well :-)

see also http://fholzhauer.de/archives/2009/02/10/s%C3%B8nderzeichendom%C3%A6inistsu%C3%BEerde/ (in German)
Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2009-02-12 03:32:11 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 486018 ***