Are there any SMTP servers that support the SMTPUTF8 extension? [closed]
RFC 5321 limits email addresses to 7 bit US-ASCII encoding. RFC 6531 (a fairly new spec) allows email addresses in SMTP commands and IMF headers to be encoded in UTF-8. This SMTP extension makes internationalized email addresses (e.g., pelé@example.com) possible.
An SMTP server advertises support for internationalized email by replying to the EHLO
command with the SMTPUTF8
keyword:
250-smtp.example.com at your service
250 SMTPUTF8
An SMTP client utilizes this extension with the MAIL
command:
MAIL FROM:<pelé@example.com> SMTPUTF8
Question: Are there any SMTP servers or email clients that support SMTPUTF8?
Solution 1:
Postfix supports a subset of SMTPUTF8 since version 2.12: http://www.postfix.org/SMTPUTF8_README.html
Solution 2:
Edit: This answer is no longer true.
As far as I can tell, at this time (Feb 2013) there are no SMTP servers or email clients that support SMTPUTF8
.