.cindex "UTF-8" "in domain name"
Lots of discussion is going on about internationalized domain names. One
camp is strongly in favour of just using UTF-8 characters, and it seems
-that at least two other MTAs permit this. This option allows Exim users to
-experiment if they wish.
+that at least two other MTAs permit this.
+This option allows Exim users to experiment if they wish.
If it is set true, Exim's domain parsing function allows valid
UTF-8 multicharacters to appear in domain name components, in addition to
-letters, digits, and hyphens. However, just setting this option is not
-enough; if you want to look up these domain names in the DNS, you must also
+letters, digits, and hyphens.
+
+.new
+If Exim is built with internationalization support
+and the SMTPUTF8 ESMTP option is in use (see chapter &<<CHAPi18n>>&)
+this option can be left as default.
+.wen
+Without that,
+if you want to look up such domain names in the DNS, you must also
adjust the value of &%dns_check_names_pattern%& to match the extended form. A
suitable setting is:
.code
This test is omitted for PTR records. These occur only in calls from the dnsdb
lookup, which constructs the names itself, so they should be OK. Besides,
-bitstring labels don't conform to normal name syntax. (But the aren't used any
-more.)
-
-For SRV records, we omit the initial _smtp._tcp. components at the start.
-The check has been seen to bite on the destination of a SRV lookup that
-initiall hit a CNAME, for which the next name had only two components.
-RFC2782 makes no mention of the possibiility of CNAMES, but the Wikipedia
-article on SRV says they are not a valid configuration. */
+bitstring labels don't conform to normal name syntax. (But they aren't used any
+more.) */
#ifndef STAND_ALONE /* Omit this for stand-alone tests */
if (check_dns_names_pattern[0] != 0 && type != T_PTR && type != T_TXT)
{
- const uschar *checkname = name;
int ovector[3*(EXPAND_MAXN+1)];
dns_pattern_init();
-
- /* For an SRV lookup, skip over the first two components (the service and
- protocol names, which both start with an underscore). */
-
- if (type == T_SRV || type == T_TLSA)
- {
- while (*checkname && *checkname++ != '.') ;
- while (*checkname && *checkname++ != '.') ;
- }
-
- if (pcre_exec(regex_check_dns_names, NULL, CCS checkname, Ustrlen(checkname),
+ if (pcre_exec(regex_check_dns_names, NULL, CCS name, Ustrlen(name),
0, PCRE_EOPT, ovector, nelem(ovector)) < 0)
{
DEBUG(D_dns)