Don't think thats necessarily true - what about news.bbc.co.uk or games.yahoo.com.
Neither of them fits into the spec you described there... Richy -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Verhoef (UGBI) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 December 2001 08:41 To: 'Chris Lee'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: max # of characters for links to work in emails? The maximum allowed of characters in a domain name is 3 (www) + 64 (domainname) + 3 (tld) = 70 chars. So if you try to limit it within the 70 chars you should be safe. Jerry -----Original Message----- From: Chris Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: max # of characters for links to work in emails? a good guess would be every email client does it differnetly. unfort Id have to say try it yourself. Id imagine its long enough that you shouldnt have to worry about it, but I could be wrong. -- Chris Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Tom Churm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > hi, > > i'm working on an eCard project and somehow need to find out what the > reasonable limit is on characters for urls in email bodies (normal text, > not mime). > > i know that some mail clients will cut off urls that are too long or > else throw a line break in the middle of them--thus rendering them > 'unclickable'. and this is exactly what i wanna avoid. > > anyone have any advice to offer in this area? > > muchos gracias, > > tom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any form of disclosure, production, distribution or any action taken or refrained from in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please notify the sender immediately. The content of the email is not legally binding unless confirmed by letter bearing two authorized signatures. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
