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The format of an email address is local-part@domain, where the local-part may be up to 64 octets long and the domain may have a maximum of 255 octets. [5] The formal definitions are in RFC 5322 (sections 3.2.3 and 3.4.1) and RFC 5321—with a more readable form given in the informational RFC 3696 (written by J. Klensin, the author of RFC 5321 [6]) and the associated errata.
EMAIL was used by CompuServe starting in April 1981, which popularized the term. [12] [13] EMail is a traditional form used in RFCs for the "Author's Address".
An email alias may be used to create a simple replacement for a long or difficult-to-remember email address. It can also be used to create a generic email address such as webmaster@example.com and info@example.com. On UNIX-like systems, email aliases may be placed into the file /etc/aliases and have the form: