Accents in email address

[JorisG]

When I try to create a new email address for a domain using an accent (é in café@domain.com) in the username, I get an error (Error creating account - Invalid Username). However, my client needs an accent in his email address. How can this be solved?

Thank you very much for your help!

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

I'm not really sure that's possible, i didn't honestly search in the RFC, check if the RFC allow accents on email address, i doubt, if it doesn't, you just can't, because any server will accept a non-compliant e-mail address

Regards

 

[zEitEr]

Though in certain cases it may be allowed:

Internationalization examples

The example addresses below would not be handled by RFC 5322 based servers, but are permitted by RFC 6530. Servers compliant with this will be able to handle these:

• Latin Alphabet (with diacritics): Pelé@example.com
• Greek Alphabet: δοκιμή@παράδειγμα.δοκιμή
• Traditional Chinese Characters: 我買@屋企.香港
• Japanese Characters: 甲斐@黒川.日本
• Cyrillic Characters: ....

Internationalization support

• Postfix mailer supports internationalized mail since 2015-02-08 with a stable release 3.0.0.[SUP][25][/SUP]
• Google has support for sending emails to and from internationalized domains, but does not allow the registration of non-ASCII email addresses.[SUP][26][/SUP]
• Microsoft added similar functionality in Outlook 2016[SUP][27][/SUP]

Not too sure yet about exim which comes with Directadmin. It might require patching or additional configuring...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Internationalization