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A company called Halibut Stuff used to sell T-shirts that came with free email forwarding. I was myself@iwenttodefcon7.andalligotwas.thislousyemailaddress.com
by myself248 2y ago
A company called Halibut Stuff used to sell T-shirts that came with free email forwarding.
I was myself@iwenttodefcon7.andalligotwas.thislousyemailaddress.com
It broke a LOT of signup forms.
I was working in software testing at the time and we talked about setting up a "likely to break things" email service and selling it to other testers, but realized that the people who'd need it would find it hard to explain to the people who write the checks.
- tracker1 2y agoWhile arbitrary, I usually set email fields to at least 100 characters (n?varchar) in databases.
- pixl97 2y agoI believe the RFC says they can be up to 256 characters, though the domain must only be 64 characters. >In addition to restrictions on syntax, there is a length limit on email addresses. That limit is a maximum of 64 characters (octets) in the "local part" (before the "@") and a maximum of 255 characters (octets) in the domain part (after the "@") for a total length of 320 characters. However, there is a restriction in RFC 2821 on the length of an address in MAIL and RCPT commands of 256 characters. Since addresses that do not fit in those fields are not normally useful, the upper limit on address lengths should normally be considered to be 256.