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Support for UTF8 characters in email address

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Is it possible to send emails via Thunderbird to addresses with UTF8 character left of the @ sign, like for instance müller@gmail.com

After hitting "Send" I get the error message "The local Part of the email address ... contains non-ASCII characters. This is not yet supported..."

Can I change a setting to allow this?

Is it possible to send emails via Thunderbird to addresses with UTF8 character left of the @ sign, like for instance müller@gmail.com After hitting "Send" I get the error message "The local Part of the email address ... contains non-ASCII characters. This is not yet supported..." Can I change a setting to allow this?

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sfhowes
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After some quick research, I don't think there's anything you can do "until TB supports RFC 6532":

http://kb.mozillazine.org/International_characters

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2857091

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3025627

If you have a gmail account, I think it will work if you send from the Gmail website.