[Typo3-dev] Improvement of function validEmail($email)

[Martin T. Kutschker]

Michael Stucki wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> 
>>As far as I have understood, those funky umlauts in domain names are not
>>meant to work with smtp/mx-records.
> 
> As far as I do understand, umlaut domains only exist on the very client side
> of a communication. This means that the mail client would have to translate
> the domain name part of an email address to the IDN scheme.

Ah this could be.

> I suggest that we add a little wrapper which does this job for mails sent by
> TYPO3.

Hm?? You mean a lttle code that translates umlauts in iso-8859-1, utf.8, 
etc in the IDN encoding?

> Don't forget that umlauts in the localpart of an address have ever been
> valid!

I though you'd had to quote them to be valid: "müller"@miclh.de. Or was 
it escaping?

> <stucki rant>
> I'm looking forward to the day "they" announce case sensitive domain names.
> It's so innovative, isn't it?!
> </stucki rant>

Case sensitivity will rock the world ;-)

Masi