[JDEV] request for ideas: RFC822 to JID mapping

[David Waite]

Not just that - JIDs can have longer nodes than email addresses (255 
bytes vs 64 bytes), and can have resources, a concept which doesn't map 
to 822/2822 addresses.

-David Waite

Matthias Wimmer wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm working on an improved smtp-transport based on Jeremie's 
> transport. (Theoretic's transport is not acceptable for me because I 
> am not allowed to change the code.)
> One big problem I havn't solved yet is how to map JIDs to RFC822 
> conformand addresses if they contain characters that are not valid in 
> the user part of a mail address. Has anybody a good idea how to deal 
> with that? Especially I'd like to get comments from people that use 
> languages that are not written with latin letters.
> Sure I could use something like quoted printable for that, but the 
> resulting addresses wouldn't be very handy.
>
> Tot kijk
>   Matthias
>