The World's Longest Email Address - Neatorama

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-ubber-cool-english-alphabet-loverer-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz@please-try-to.send-me-an-email-if-you-can-possibly-begin-to-remember-this-coz.this-is-the-longest-email-address-known-to-man-but-to-be-honest.this-is-such-a-stupidly-long-sub-domain-it-could-go-on-forever.pacraig.com

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Pointless

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The address worked, but it does violate Internet standards.

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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

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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.

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