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  3. August 2005

RE: Email address length

> See RFC2821 and RFC2822
> 
>    local-part
>       The maximum total length of a user name or other 
> local-part is 64
>       characters.
> 
>    domain
>       The maximum total length of a domain name or number is 255
>       characters.

I saw somewhere where an allowance was made for 321 characters and I
wondered why that number.  Now I know.

Thanks everyone for replying.

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