Re: [NTLK] Special characters in owner info allowed?

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Thu Aug 19 2004 - 06:02:31 PDT


Frank Gruendel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I do have the impression that some mail servers do not allow special
> characters in the "from" fields of sent mail. This does not mean
> the sender's email address itself, but the part of the "From" field
> that is taken from the Newton's owner info.
>
> Does anybody know
> if this is true or not true? I had an owner in "owner info" whose
> last name contained an umlaut, and I received a SMTP error
> from freenet.de: 550 syntax error in header. I changed the
> umlaut to "ue" and this time the mail was accepted.

My hypothesis is that the Newton (or, more likely, your mail transport)
doesn't do any character set conversion on the name when it puts it into the
 From header. The RFC for SMTP states that all SMTP commands and replies must
be in the 7-bit US-ASCII character set.

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