The World’s Longest Email Address

By John Farrier in Blogs & Internet on Aug 16, 2010 at 6:10 am

A man named Peter Craig claims to have, at 345 characters, the world’s longest email address. Here it is:

contact-admin-hello-webmaster-info-services-peter-crazy-but-oh-so-ubbe r-cool-english-alphabet-loverer-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz@please-try- to.send-me-an-email-if-you-can-possibly-begin-to-remember-this-coz.thi s-is-the-longest-email-address-known-to-man-but-to-be-honest.this-is-s uch-a-stupidly-long-sub-domain-it-could-go-on-forever.pacraig.com

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Splint Chesthair
Aug 16th, 2010 at 6:30 am
Who uses email?
Mike Hunt
Aug 16th, 2010 at 7:42 am
Nice try but it breaks RFC5321 sections 4.5.3.1.1 and 4.5.3.1.3 and so is not a valid SMTP email address.
GailPink
Aug 16th, 2010 at 8:42 am
Retardo @Retardo Dot Com
lewis82
Aug 16th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Visit his website (which is valid):

please-try- to.send-me-an-email-if-you-can-possibly-begin-to-remember-this-coz.thi s-is-the-longest-email-address-known-to-man-but-to-be-honest.this-is-s uch-a-stupidly-long-sub-domain-it-could-go-on-forever.pacraig.com
Edward
Aug 17th, 2010 at 4:54 am
The address worked, but it does violate Internet standards.
Pigonator
Nov 5th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Pointless

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