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by Avamander 1526 days ago
I think postfix's DB drivers were also still latin-1 only, if I'm not misremembering I had to mojibake what I wanted it to pick up.

Though UTF-8 is not the only thing atrocious with e-mail stacks, there's so much maintained-but-not-really non-standard software that a lot of people rely on.

To end on a positive note, e-mail hosts are starting to demand SPF to accept mail.