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Re: [Nmh-workers] Length of the display name of an Email Address

2014-05-05 08:39:00
Is there an upper limit to the length of the display name of an Email address?
Section 3.4 of RFC 5322 does not seem to indicate any. If there is not a legal
limit, is there a practical limit? That is, will some clients get unhappy with
Email addresses that are too long?

I agree with your reading of RFC 5322 that there is no standards-based
limit to a display name.

As for a practial limit ... good question!  I would guess that anything
over a kilobyte would be asking for trouble.  I don't think there's any
easy way to predict what the practical limit would be, though.

--Ken

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