Handling emails

[Dan Stromberg]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Nobody <nobody at nowhere.com> wrote:

> Any message with non-ASCII characters in the headers can safely be
> discarded as spam (I've never seen this bug in "legitimate" email).
> Many MTAs will simply reject such messages.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Internationalization

It may not yet be in common use, but tossing international e-mails is
probably not a great policy going forward.

The reign of ASCII is coming to an end, security concerns about unicode's
complexity notwithstanding.
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