Friday, 17 March 2017

Computer Science Internationalization - EAI

As I stated in schappo.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/chinese-email-address.html both DataMail and Google mail support Email Address Internationalization (EAI). DataMail provides a complete EAI service which includes both support and creation of Internationalized email addresses. Google Mail provides a partial EAI service, in that, it supports EAI but does not yet provide for creation of internationlized email accounts with internationalized email addresses. Thus organisations using Google Mail have an advantage over those organisations having an ASCII addresses only email service and have a head start in provision of a complete EAI service.

Given the Domain name of an organisation, the Unix host command can be used to determine the mail service provider. Here are some of the organisations using Google Mail:

苹果电脑 ~: host spotify.com
spotify.com has address 194.132.198.198
spotify.com has address 194.132.197.198
spotify.com has address 194.132.198.149
spotify.com mail is handled by 10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
spotify.com mail is handled by 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
spotify.com mail is handled by 10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
spotify.com mail is handled by 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
spotify.com mail is handled by 10 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
spotify.com mail is handled by 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
spotify.com mail is handled by 10 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
苹果电脑 ~: host twitter.com
twitter.com has address 104.244.42.129
twitter.com has address 104.244.42.1
twitter.com mail is handled by 30 aspmx3.googlemail.com.
twitter.com mail is handled by 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
twitter.com mail is handled by 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
twitter.com mail is handled by 30 aspmx2.googlemail.com.
twitter.com mail is handled by 20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
苹果电脑 ~: host mixi.jp # ミクシィ
mixi.jp has address 52.198.59.66
mixi.jp has address 54.92.71.226
mixi.jp has address 52.198.89.90
mixi.jp mail is handled by 30 aspmx2.googlemail.com.
mixi.jp mail is handled by 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
mixi.jp mail is handled by 20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
mixi.jp mail is handled by 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
mixi.jp mail is handled by 30 aspmx3.googlemail.com.
苹果电脑 ~: host bristol.ac.uk # University of Bristol
bristol.ac.uk has address 137.222.0.38
bristol.ac.uk mail is handled by 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
bristol.ac.uk mail is handled by 10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
bristol.ac.uk mail is handled by 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
bristol.ac.uk mail is handled by 10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
bristol.ac.uk mail is handled by 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
苹果电脑 ~: host bathspa.ac.uk # Bath Spa University
bathspa.ac.uk has address 194.83.160.0
bathspa.ac.uk has address 162.13.24.154
bathspa.ac.uk has address 72.47.217.0
bathspa.ac.uk mail is handled by 10 ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
bathspa.ac.uk mail is handled by 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
bathspa.ac.uk mail is handled by 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
bathspa.ac.uk mail is handled by 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
bathspa.ac.uk mail is handled by 10 ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
Providing a full EAI service involves going beyond ASCII. It entails supporting Unicode email addresses. Unicode email addresses such as my Chinese email 小山@电邮.在线