doubledee Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Is 40 characters long enough for an E-mail field? Debbie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadion Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Ok, let's see. This email: 'veryveryverylongusername@veryveryverylongdomainname.veryveryverylongdomain' has a length of 74 characters; a bit less than twice your 40 characters limit. If you predict there will be crazy people will crazy long emails, no, 40 characters are not enough. Otherwise, they're more than enough. PS: My e-mail address is 22 characters long and is of a normal length Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubledee Posted April 25, 2011 Author Share Posted April 25, 2011 Ok, let's see. This email: 'veryveryverylongusername@veryveryverylongdomainname.veryveryverylongdomain' has a length of 74 characters; a bit less than twice your 40 characters limit. If you predict there will be crazy people will crazy long emails, no, 40 characters are not enough. Otherwise, they're more than enough. PS: My e-mail address is 22 characters long and is of a normal length There are always "outliers"... So my Payment Form isn't wickedly wide, I'd like to limit the field to 40-50 characters. I am also old-school, and feel that if someone needs to be retarded and have excessively long e-mails or use funky characters, then I don't need to support them. But I wasn't sure if 40 characters was too strict... Debbie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 The RFC that defines email addresses allows for up to 321 total characters in a valid address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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