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Re: [Nmh-workers] Length of the display name of an Email Address
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Length of the display name of an Email Address |
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Mon, 05 May 2014 09:38:51 -0400 |
>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