Author: Jacqui Caren Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] BaB Soton Uni register MySQL script
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > IIRC, the two parts of an email address (i.e. before and after the @)
> have a limit of 64 characters each. The local part certainly does; I'm
> not so certain about the domain part, but I doubt there are many
> hostnames much longer than that.
I don't think that hampshirelug will hit any big addresses - I have had
between 10 and 20 million through here and have broken the 200 mark
a couple of times for valid (deliverable) addresses - as you say the name
part is usually the 'gotcha'.
Finally what the RFC's state and what people actually use sometimes
conflict badly :-)
