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kcode
Asked: 2009-10-20 02:31:26 +0800 CST

IIS SMTP service does not accept mail addresses with non-ascii domain name

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our IIS6 is running a smtp service.

This smpt throws the following exception if an email shall be send to an domain with an umlaut.

Exaple: mymail at mydomäne.de etc.

Doesn't the IIS support such email addresses? What can I do about this?

Thank you! Regards, Uwe

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  1. Best Answer

    Email addresses need to be ASCII so really you need a domain for email without an umlaut.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address

    There are plans to internationalize this in line with domain names, however this is not standardised yet and will continue to cause problems for some time as people update.

    http://www.idnnews.com/?tag=non-ascii-email

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