[UA-EAI] Self-certification guide item: transcribing foreign-script email addreses

[Asmus Freytag]

It would be bad to "replace" the original script. However, I wouldn't 
mind seeing a transliteration added to the friendly name.

If "from" addresses are really as irrelevant, why do we display them?

So, yes, displaying something that allows a user to classify mail the 
same way they can with native script ones would be a helpful feature.

A./

On 8/16/2021 7:46 PM, John Levine via UA-EAI wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2021, Jim DeLaHunt via UA-EAI wrote:
>> In today's technology WG meeting, Satish Babu brought up an 
>> interesting situation. What about the case where a user receives an 
>> email message from an address which is written in a script which they 
>> cannot read?
>>
>> What should, ideally, happen in this case?  Should we reflect that in 
>> the "Self-Certification of EAI Support" guide, perhaps as a 
>> Platinum-level feature?
>>
>> I imagine that a reader who gets an email address where they can't 
>> read the From: address wants two things:
>>
>> 1. Comprehension: to know who sent the message, and how they relate 
>> to the receiver
>>
>> 2. Security: to know that the message is safe to open and read and trust
>
> This sounds to me like a great deal of complexity looking for a problem.
>
> For technical safety, does the message contain a virus or link to a 
> malware site, the From: address is completely irrelevant.  The 
> contents are what matter.
>
> For what we might call phishing safety, is this message what it seems 
> to be, the contents are more important than the author's address.  If 
> you can't read the address, you're not going to be able to tell very 
> much about the author.  If transliteration is even possible, which it 
> isn't from languages like Chinese or Japanese, I still don't see how 
> that would help if you don't know the author.
>
> On the other hand, I get mail all the time from colleagues in Asia 
> whose return addresses are in their own language but the message is in 
> a language I can read.  I would prefer that my mail program not make 
> "helpful" modifications to those.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, john.levine at standcore.com
> Standcore LLC
>
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