i have been dealing with setting up a mail server, lately. debian seems to have a preference for exim. most of the mail admins i know also support this. so i had a look at this. as it always happens to me, i start with a not so easy scenario, but after some figuring i [...]

ever messed around with umlauts or other non [a-z] letters? it's quite horrible. for the german speaking region there are mainly two encoding types: iso8859-1 and utf-8. the former encodes each letter with one byte by extending old 7-bit ascii with 127 more letters, amongst others also umlauts. utf-8 includes up to 32,640 more  letters (ascii [...]