Re: The length of a email address -- MIDRANGE-L

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I believe a domain name can be up to 255 characters. According to a
StackOverflow post
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/386294/maximum-length-of-a-valid-email-id)
the total length of an email is only 254.

In practice, I choose to define my email addresses as varchar(100).
That seems like a realistic balance of length and space.

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I am developing an application that requires that I store a number of
email addresses.

I have found several articles that discuss the maximum length but I am
not really
sure what is the "correct" number.

Is 256 the maximum length for a typical email address ?

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