evolution don't handle IDN-Mail adresses

[Jörg Frings-Fürst]

The mail adress like "xx@automaten-Bäumler.de" produce the errormessage

The reported error was "RCPT TO <xx@automaten-bäumler.de> gescheitert: Bad recipient address syntax".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 28 16:30:00 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

This kind of error comes from the SMTP server used to send mail (either as a direct connection to the remote mail server, or through the smart host used).

What are your settings for Sending mail for your Evolution account? Are you using a specific SMTP server, or are you using Sendmail? If you're using a SMTP server, which one?

This is most likely not a bug in Evolution; could be a bug in sendmail if it's what's used; otherwise it's a bug in the configuration or software used on the remote end.

People usually don't use accents for characters in hostnames; so perhaps just dropping it might work (or using the alternate spelling in this particular case, if there is one).

Marking as Incomplete for now; but this is just about certainly not a bug in Evolution.

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

I use as SMTP - Server Postfix 2.7.0.

But i thinks the main prob is that evolution don't convert into ACE-Strings.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Should it really be evolution to do this or postfix directly?

AFAIUI it makes more sense if it's done by postfix, if only to avoid duplicating work in every application that might want to send mail... and also because someone might want to manually send mail, and then translating manually to an ACE string is non-obvious.

Reassigning to postfix.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

As discussed on IRC, this is really a client issue to convert to punycode before submission to the MTA. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/postfix-users/message/266018

[Andre Klapper (a9016009)]

Does this still happen in 3.6 or 3.8?

[Augusto Bortoluzzi (augusto-bortoluzzi)]

Yes the bug does appear randomly with Evolution 3.6.4 on Ubuntu 13.04 amd64

[Augusto Bortoluzzi (augusto-bortoluzzi)]

Solved - In my case it was a very strange html encoding about copy&pasting an address, in particular for the '@' symbol that wasn't recognized.
I think the recipient's address should be automatically checked. Shouldn't be there an automatic workaround for this copy&paste typo? Thanks for your comments.

[Andre Klapper (a9016009)]

Unclear what the problem is (description too vague), hence cannot say if a workaround would even be possible.

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

obsolete (see gnome-bugs)
change status to invalid

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

sry for the "Invalid"

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

In Evolution 3.8.4 the same bug

[fabio (fabio-eduardo-moreira)]

We are using evolution communicating with Outlook Web Access in Microsoft Exchange Server, but could not send mail to other networks (intranet).
We could only send email to our network, example; my server is mail.kelogi.intraer and my email is <email address hidden>, but
I can not send email to <email address hidden>,

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream bug marked as a duplicate of #486018
which was closed "RESOLVED FIXED" on 2014-08-27
So fixed in all recent versions of Ubuntu