How do I get an email address in Unicode?

I am trying to get a unicode email address in it. Like exeample@example.com. I've tried Chinese sites ( http://www.sina.com.cn/ ), gmail.com, and even my own hosting site on namecheap. They all have requirements for ASCII characters only. I'm trying to test and update a library but want to test on a real email using unicode.

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Currently, you won't find a major email service that supports Unicode mailboxes. You probably won't find at least one email service of this kind.

Instead, you can try registering an IDN-encoded mailbox (I'm not sure if you will succeed, but I read a couple of blog posts saying the trick worked in the past on mail.ru). An IDN-encoded mailbox will look like this:

@mail.ru xn--80a0bn@mail.ru



If you want to get a clean unicode mailbox, you will need to wait some more time (years, it seems). Although RFC 6530 has been around since 2012, Unicode mailboxes are still not available in mainstream mail services (like Google, Yandex, Yahoo, etc.) and mail server software (like Postfix).

According to RFC 6530, an MTA with SMPTUTF8 support cannot redirect an email address with a sender address SMPTUTF8 to an MTA without SMPTUTF8. Email must be returned as undeliverable (RFC 6530 Sections 8 and 9).

Therefore, even if you get an RFC 6530 compliant mail server, it will be useless until RFC 6530 is supported by the vast majority of mail servers on the Internet.

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