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

[Noèl Köthe]

severity 537124 normal
tags 537124 + upstream
forwarded 537124 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505198
thanks

Salut Yves,

Am Mittwoch, den 15.07.2009, 13:07 +0200 schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez:

> > IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) are not supported by
> > evolution (mail).

> > 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.

I disagree that this is wishlist because without IDN users cannot send
emails to recipients with correct and RFC conform email addresses.

Just for reference:
I search the gnome bugzilla and found the following upstream report:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505198

-- 
Noèl Köthe <noel debian.org>
Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org
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