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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