[Evolution] Bug#537124: Bug#537124: evolution: cannot handle IDN domains like köthe.de

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

severity 537124 wishlist
thanks
On mer, 2009-07-15 at 12:25 +0200, Noèl Köthe wrote:
> Package: evolution
> Version: 2.26.3-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) are not supported by
> evolution (mail).
> Sending an email with IDN email recipient will result in:
> 
> Jul 15 11:20:20 server postfix/smtpd[4374]: warning: Illegal address
> syntax from server.domain.com[11.22.33.44] in RCPT command:
> <noel at k??the.de>
> 
> Evolution does not translate the domain in punycode
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode which would fix the problem.
> http://packages.debian.org/libidn can be used for this.

Thanks for the report, but you definitely should report this directly
upstream, it'll be faster.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis