# Are very long words not allowed in topic titles?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-very-long-words-not-allowed-in-topic-titles/29683>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [Junho 5, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-very-long-words-not-allowed-in-topic-titles/29683 "2015-06-05T12:33:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [Junho 5, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-very-long-words-not-allowed-in-topic-titles/29683/1 "2015-06-05T12:33:20Z")

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We had a user get an email-in topic rejected with the topic:

> `Adding DropMillisecondsHibernateInterceptor for MySQL 5.6+ compatibility`

With the error message: `Title is invalid; try to be a little more descriptive`.

However, when he changed the title to:

> `Adding an interceptor to drop milliseconds for compatibility with MySQL 5.6 and above`

The topic was accepted & processed.

1. Does `+` really cause an email to be rejected? Must it be?
2. If it must, can we at least get a more accurate error message?

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