The missing piece of open source softwware is a full featured EAI IMAP/POP server. The Courier server works but it is missing all of the extra non-EAI stuff that Dovecot and Cyrus have. If the UASG wanted to spend some money, paying for EAI upgrades for those two packages would be a good place to do it.
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От: John Levine <john.levine@standcore.com>
Дата: 21.11.2020 22:43 (GMT+03:00)
Кому: don@I2.org.nz, ua-discuss@icann.org
Тема: Re: [UA-discuss] mail software
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, Don Hollander wrote: > I still hope that the UASG will be able to help seed some of the largest > email software providers.
Gmail and MS Hotmail/Outlook/Live have good EAI support.
In the open source world the two most popular mail packages Postfix and Exim have good EAI support. Roundcube webmail's EAI mostly works with bugs that don't look hard to fix.
The missing piece of open source softwware is a full featured EAI IMAP/POP server. The Courier server works but it is missing all of the extra non-EAI stuff that Dovecot and Cyrus have. If the UASG wanted to spend some money, paying for EAI upgrades for those two packages would be a good place to do it.
I haven't tested Oracle's mail package that is widely used by big companies but after talking to people there, it appears to have good EAI support, written by people who understand EAI well.
Apparently many of Oracle's customers turn on L1 support to communicate with people elsewhere with EAI addresses, but nobody turns on L2 support because the mail addresses are invariably managed as part of their overall internal IT systems. Upgrading all of those to handle UTF-8 addresses would be an enormous and expensive task with very speculative payback.
There is an old maxim that You Can't Change Just One Thing which definitely applies here. Getting mail packages to support EAI is a nice start, but there is much. much more involved in getting organizations to provide local language EAI addresses to all of their staff and users.
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