[UA-discuss] Spotify

[Don Hollander]

Wow!!!


Does anyone know anyone at Spotify?

We could do a case study.

Don


> On 6/03/2017, at 4:02 AM, Andre Schappo <A.Schappo at lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I have done a little analysis of and experimentation with Spotify.
> 
> experimentation:
> 
> I have setup my Spotify account with a Japanese Katakana username, a Chinese hanzi email address and a Korean hangeul password. Native script forms and not romanised forms. It works!!! How cool is that😀
> 
> analysis:
> 
> Spotify uses google mail. The following is an extract from my terminal session.
> 
> 苹果电脑 ~: host spotify.com <http://spotify.com/>
> spotify.com <http://spotify.com/> has address 194.132.198.149
> spotify.com <http://spotify.com/> has address 194.132.197.198
> spotify.com <http://spotify.com/> has address 194.132.198.198
> spotify.com <http://spotify.com/> mail is handled by 10 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.com <http://aspmx4.googlemail.com/>.
> spotify.com <http://spotify.com/> mail is handled by 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com <http://alt1.aspmx.l.google.com/>.
> spotify.com <http://spotify.com/> mail is handled by 10 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.com <http://aspmx5.googlemail.com/>.
> spotify.com <http://spotify.com/> mail is handled by 10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.com <http://aspmx2.googlemail.com/>.
> spotify.com <http://spotify.com/> mail is handled by 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com <http://aspmx.l.google.com/>.
> spotify.com <http://spotify.com/> mail is handled by 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com <http://alt2.aspmx.l.google.com/>.
> spotify.com <http://spotify.com/> mail is handled by 10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.com <http://aspmx3.googlemail.com/>.
> 
> I also checked with XgenPlus EAI tester https://eai.xgenplus.com/ <https://eai.xgenplus.com/> using address support at spotify.com <mailto:support at spotify.com> If you run the test yourself you will see the server advertising SMTPUTF8
> 
> So, this explains the Chinese email address part working, as google supports EAI.
> 
> André Schappo
> 

Don Hollander
Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Skype: don_hollander



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