Re: limit on length of email address?

RFC 2821 imposes minimums on the number of characters an SMTP
system must support in the local-part and the Domain.   For most
purposes, those numbers are the maximums you are looking for.

    john


--On Friday, November 07, 2003 19:09 -0500 "Richard O. Hammer"
<ROHammer(_at_)earthlink(_dot_)net> wrote:

> In RFC 2821 4.1.2, I see
>    Mailbox = Local-part "@" Domain
>
> Is there a limit somewhere on the length of Mailbox,
> Local-part, and/or Domain?
>
> Thank you,
> Rich Hammer
> Hillsborough, N.C.