Re: [Fetchmail-users] Internationalized (EAI) mail in fetchmail?

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 22.06.20 um 03:17 schrieb John Levine:
> In article <325...@gm...> you write:
>> Am 20.06.20 um 03:27 schrieb John Levine:
>>> Looking at the source code I can see there's no EAI support in Fetchmail ...
>> fetchmail isn't EAI ready yet.
> Uh, right.

Well, I should have written "nor is it supposed to be, yet".

I want this to change for fetchmail 7.x (which is a longer while out,
and lives on the next branch in Git) and I am tracking this in a Gitlab
issue so it doesn't get lost:
https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/issues/14

Feel free to add your technical/testing/known-implementations comments
there, or if you don't want to bother with creating an account there, I
can do it for you.

>> I'm not sure if fetchmail should care because the known protocol and
>> system breachers you named the "big gorillas" do it. They disregard lots
>> of other standards...
> I've looked at Gmail and and am looking at Outlook/Hotmail and their EAI
> implementations seem pretty standard conformant to me.

I don't dispute that, but I've had a small share of idiosyncrasies of
Outlook and GMail already.

Especially Google's mailbox and recent: models and workarounds are
strange, and the push towards OAuth2 that runs entirely counter to a
small console-based mail-fetching application...

> You might look at Coremail in China and XGenPlus in India, both of
> which have good EAI support.

I guess we'd need to have those tested by fetchmail users.