lubich@ethz.UUCP (Hannes Lubich) (11/23/88)
Hi folks,
we are just discussion a new naming scheme here at ETHZ During the
discussion, the question was raised whether there are any restrictions
concerning the lenght of an RFC-822 address and, especially, the local part
of an RFC-822 address.
I tend to remember a 80 characters limitation in SMTP that was later
changed to 265 characters but I'd be interested if there are other limits.
If you know about such limitations, please drop me a mail.
Thanks
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In article <682@ethz.UUCP>, lubich@ethz.UUCP (Hannes Lubich) writes: > Hi folks, Salue, Hannes. > we are just discussion a new naming scheme here at ETHZ During the > discussion, the question was raised whether there are any restrictions > concerning the lenght of an RFC-822 address and, especially, the local part > of an RFC-822 address. > I tend to remember a 80 characters limitation in SMTP that was later > changed to 265 characters but I'd be interested if there are other limits. > If you know about such limitations, please drop me a mail. have you heard of the "sanity-length-limitation"? (-: for a counter-ecample check some of the sitenames of the Uni Dortmund...... :-( yours is certainly a valid question - but the substance (80 chars) scares the heck out of me; how many chars in a foreign proper name do you think I can type without an error? how many retries do you think I am going to make when my mail bounces? If you can't say it in 8 chars, don't say it at all; otherwise it becomes an interesting scheme to reduce the volume of mail to your users ! ((-: :-)) PS: sorry I could not contribute anything of more substance; but I figure you can read the RFCs just as well as I can ... -- --------------------> PREFERED-RETURN-ADDRESS-FOLLOWS <--------------------- (ARPA) werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet: 128.83.144.1) (INTERNET) werner%rascal.ics.utexas.edu@cs.utexas.edu (UUCP) ..!utastro!werner or ..!uunet!rascal.ics.utexas.edu!werner