1 Topic by fpouget (edited by tuyau45 2005-04-08 13:41)

  • Registered: 2005-01-23
  • Posts: 205

Topic: lenght of email

Hi ,

If I understand well, with the 1.2.5 the max lenght of an email adress is 50 characters


In email.php
[ code ]
if (strlen($email) > 50)
    return false;
[/ code ]

Where is coming from this 50 limit ? I check in my mailing-list (more than 3500 subscribers) and I found one (only one adress) with more than 50 characters : 59 exactly and I know than this adress is correct !!!!

surname.longname@languedoc-roussillon.environnement.gouv.fr

Could we increase this value with no risk ?

Regards

PS: There is something really stange with bbcode [ code ] is not working always ...

  • From: Iceland
  • Registered: 2003-10-06
  • Posts: 174

Re: lenght of email

This is probably an effort to save some space, as you say less than 1.6% of your subscribers has longer email.
If you do the neccesary changes in the db you can probably raise the limit in your code.

  • Registered: 2005-01-23
  • Posts: 205

Re: lenght of email

1.6 % of the subscribers is still a lot, but in my case is less of 0.03 % so is acceptable wink

  • From: 127.0.0.1
  • Registered: 2001-11-02
  • Posts: 9,167

Re: lenght of email

I had never encountered an e-mail longer than 50 which is why I decided 50 was enough. I'll bump it up for 1.3.

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