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22976	EmailField: Maximum RFC-compliant length should be 320 characters	a.lloyd.flanagan@…	nobody	"The documentation for model.EmailField states

    Incompliance to RFCs

    The default 75 character max_length is not capable of storing all possible RFC3696/5321-compliant
    email addresses. In order to store all possible valid email addresses, a max_length of 254 is 
    required.

In fact, however, RFC3696 states of email address maximum length:

    That limit is a maximum of 64 characters (octets)
    in the ""local part"" (before the ""@"") and a maximum of 255 characters
    (octets) in the domain part (after the ""@"") for a total length of 320
    characters.

I note the same statement regarding the 254-character limit in the Release Notes document for version 1.8."	Bug	closed	Documentation	dev	Normal	invalid	email limit		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	1	0