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Re:The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses by anxx on Saturday May 25, 2013 @06:43PM (#5769155)
Related question: is there a limit on email address length? Like a real fundamental limit, not arbitrary decisions Gmail or Yahoo folks might have come up with.
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Re:The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses by chronomex on Saturday May 25, 2013 @07:39PM (#5769335)
Header lines are limited to 998 characters (1000 - '\r\n'). Subtract 'To: ' (4 characters) and one practical maximum upper limit is 994 characters including domain.
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Re:The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses by elchief on Sunday May 26, 2013 @03:26AM (#5770349)
well the minimum length is 3, and the maximum length is 254:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/386294/what-is-the-maximu...

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Re:The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses by mindcrime on Saturday May 25, 2013 @07:16PM (#5769254)
I don't know, but you might be able to parse the answer out of this:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html

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