Subject: Re: [EAI] SMTPUTF8 for non EAI messages

From: Shawn Steele <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:02:54 +0000

> Has the wg considered the case of using SMTPUTF8 as a means to avoid
> 2047/2231 encoding for messages that don't contain any eai addresses

I would hope that systems would prefer a SMTPUTF8 connection as that avoids unnecessary encoding of stuff, regardless of whether the addresses are EAI or not.  One huge benefit is that the code page is unambiguous and not restricted to ASCII.