id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 17870 Documentation for EmailField max_length Joe Tennies Joe Tennies "There has been discussion on the Django-develop mailing list about the default max_length of the EmailField. The RFCs allow for 254 octets. This can allow for a maximum of 254 characters. Post 1.4, someone may decide to have the EmailField properly handle the encoding information if a character would use multiple bytes, but in the meantime the documentation should be updated to add the following note to the EmailField. The default 75 character max_length is not capable of storing all RFC3696/5321 email addresses. A max_length of 254 would be capable of storing all email addresses as defined by the RFC3696/5321 specification. This is not being changed at this time to maintain backwards compatibility." Bug closed Documentation 1.4-beta-1 Normal fixed joe@… Ready for checkin 1 0 0 0 1 0