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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt | 96 |
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diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog index c167f8392..eab4f6547 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog @@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}. variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}. +JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled + for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N + Exim version 4.86 ----------------- diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt index 45e7d1ba1..aa4cb464d 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt +++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt @@ -1125,102 +1125,6 @@ $tls_out_tlsa_usage (detailed above). -INTERNATIONAL ------------------------------------------------------------- -SMTPUTF8 -Internationalised mail name handling. -RFCs 6530, 6533, 5890 - -Compile with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL and libidn. - -New main config option smtputf8_advertise_hosts, default '*', -a host list. If this matches the sending host and -accept_8bitmime is true (the default) then the ESMTP option -SMTPUTF8 will be advertised. - -If the sender specifies the SMTPUTF8 option on a MAIL command -international handling for the message is enabled and -the expansion variable $message_smtputf8 will have value TRUE. - -The option allow_utf8_domains is set to true for this -message. All DNS lookups are converted to a-label form -whatever the setting of allow_utf8_domains. - -Both localparts and domain are maintained as the original -utf8 form internally; any matching or regex use will -require appropriate care. Filenames created, eg. by -the appendfile transport, will have utf8 name. - -Helo names sent by the smtp transport will have any utf8 -components expanded to a-label form. - -Any certificate name checks will be done using the a-label -form of the name. - -Log lines and Received-by: header lines will aquire a "utf8" -prefix on the protocol element, eg. utf8esmtp. - -New expansion operators: - ${utf8_domain_to_alabel:str} - ${utf8_domain_from_alabel:str} - ${utf8_localpart_to_alabel:str} - ${utf8_localpart_from_alabel:str} - -New "control = utf8_downconvert" ACL modifier, -sets a flag requiring that addresses are converted to -a-label form before smtp delivery, for use in a -Message Submission Agent context. Can also be -phrased as "control = utf8_downconvert/1" and is -mandatory. The flag defaults to zero and can be cleared -by "control = utf8_downconvert/0". The value "-1" -may also be used, to use a-label for only if the -destination host does not support SMTPUTF8. - -If mua_wrapper is set, the utf8_downconvert control -defaults to -1 (convert if needed). - - -There is no explicit support for VRFY and EXPN. -Configurations supporting these should inspect -$smtp_command_argument for an SMTPUTF8 argument. - -There is no support for LMTP on Unix sockets. -Using the "lmtp" protocol option on an smtp transport, -for LMTP over TCP, should work as expected. - -Known issues: - - DSN unitext handling is not present - - no provision for converting logging from or to UTF-8 - ----- -IMAP folder names - -New expansion operator: - -${imapfolder {<string>} {<sep>} {<specials>}} - -The string is converted from the charset specified by the headers charset -command (in a filter file) or headers_charset global option, to the -modified UTF-7 encoding specified by RFC 2060, with the following -exception: All occurences of <sep> (which has to be a single character) -are replaced with periods ("."), and all periods and slashes that aren't -<sep> and are not in the <specials> string are BASE64 encoded. - -The third argument can be omitted, defaulting to an empty string. -The second argument can be omitted, defaulting to "/". - -This is the encoding used by Courier for Maildir names on disk, and followed -by many other IMAP servers. - - Example 1: ${imapfolder {Foo/Bar}} yields "Foo.Bar". - Example 2: ${imapfolder {Foo/Bar}{.}{/}} yields "Foo&AC8-Bar". - Example 3: ${imapfolder {Räksmörgås}} yields "R&AOQ-ksm&APY-rg&AOU-s". - -Note that the source charset setting is vital, and also that characters -must be representable in UTF-16. - - - DSN extra information --------------------- If compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO extra information will be added |