RE: Email address length

Jeff,

 When our masterfiles were designed ten years ago we took a WAG and
allocated 81 chars: 40 for the address, 40 for the domain and 1 for the "@"
because we didn't know what to expect. There are several thousand business
partners on file now. The greatest distribution is between 20 and 33 chars
and it drops off precipitously after that. There are only 4 recipient
addresses with length greater than 50 and those have the friendly name
embedded inside the address like:
"Suzie Creamcheese" <Suzie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

JK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jones, John (US)
> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 1:46 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Email address length
> 
> Be generous; disk & RAM are cheap.  My former email address here was
> '@am.joneslanglasalle.com' which is 24 characters without specifying who
> the email is actually addressed to.  I'd recommend a minimum of 50
> characters if space is tight but would rather see it at 128.  I really
> doubt you'd see an address longer than that.
> 
> --
> John A. Jones, CISSP
> Americas Information Security Officer
> Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
> V: +1-630-455-2787  F: +1-312-601-1782
> john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 1:24 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: Email address length
> 
> Those of you who are storing email addresses for customers/vendors etc
> in DB2/400 files:
> 
> What length are you allowing for email addresses?  I can put VARLEN in
> the DDS to save space, but is there some maximum allowable email address
> size?
> 
> Opinions wanted and thanks.
> 
> --
> Jeff Crosby
> Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
> P.O. Box 13369
> Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
> 260-422-7531