PHPMailer Character ñ on recipient address

Question

I\'m getting the next error on phpmailer when trying to send an email to a recipient address containing the letter \"ñ\", e.g.:

Fatal error: Uncaught exce

Answer 1

It seems that those kind of chars aren't allowed to be part of the "local part" of the email address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Local_part.

Answer 2

Comments below your question suggest that your mailer does simply not support internationalised email addresses. If that's the case, the workaround you can use is to convert the address to its plain US-ASCII equivalent. The encoding used for that is called punycode. For instance:

lauro.muñoz@live.com.mx

... becomes

lauro.xn--muoz-hqa@live.com.mx

... which should be exactly the same mailbox.

Disclaimer: I've never worked with internationalised addresses, please test thoroughly.