<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10417">have been using 40 char for e-mail address for over 7 years with no problems ever</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10464"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10463">Regards</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10462">Roland Fischer</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10461">EPC Associates<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10371"><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10460"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10448" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10447"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10446"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10445"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10444" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10459" size="1"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10600"><span style="font-weight:bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10599">From:</span></b> Fairlight via Filepro-list <filepro-list@lists.celestial.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> filepro-list@lists.celestial.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, March 28, 2017 4:07 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: email edit<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490805490525_10449"><br>Maximum length of a domain name alone is 253 characters. And on modern<br clear="none">systems, you can't count on 8-char limits to usernames. 40 seems<br clear="none">optimistic in preventing failure/data loss. I'd allocate 256, myself.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">m-><br clear="none"><br clear="none">On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 03:15:37PM -0400, Jean-Pierre Radley via Filepro-list thus spoke:<br clear="none">> Maybe I'm dreaming, but was't there once posted here a filePro edit for<br clear="none">> email addresses?<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Perusing several customers' files, BTW, the longest email address I've<br clear="none">> come across is 40 characters long.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> -- <br clear="none">> JP<br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Filepro-list mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" href="mailto:Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a><br clear="none">> Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list" target="_blank">http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Audio panton, cogito singularis.<div class="yqt0468986436" id="yqtfd73085"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Filepro-list mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" href="mailto:Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a><br clear="none">Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list" target="_blank">http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>