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:lee@mediawaveonline.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:10 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net 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 lee@mediawaveonline.com "Tom Churm" <thomas.churm@pixelpark.com> wrote in message news:3C18BC31.666AE2BD@pixelpark.com... > 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: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net 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.