WTF Google??!!?! What do you mean you don't recognize the dots?

[SSSnail]

So you mean to tell me if someone who has the same first and last name as me, they'll get my emails and vice versa?

I'm THE original super.sssnail; there is only one! I don't care if there are other supersssnail out there. The dot is there for a reason!

Sometimes you may receive a message sent to an address that looks like yours but has a different number or arrangement of periods. While we know it might be unnerving if you think someone else's mail is being routed to your account, don't worry: both of these addresses are yours.
Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they'll all go to your inbox, and only yours. In short:

• homerjsimpson@gmail.com = hom.er.j.sim.ps.on@gmail.com
• homerjsimpson@gmail.com = HOMERJSIMPSON@gmail.com
• homerjsimpson@gmail.com = Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com

All these addresses belong to the same person. You can see this if you try to sign in with your username, but adding or removing a dot from it. You'll still go to your account.
If you get mail that seems to be intended for someone else, it's likely that the sender entered the wrong address, just like if you've ever dialed a wrong phone number for someone. In these cases, we suggest contacting the original sender or website when possible to alert them to the mistake.

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=10313#


WTF??!!!!!??!

 

[FoBoT]

i'll test that, my gmail has a dot in it
some dork had already taken fobot@gmail.com , can you believe that?!?!!?
so i did the dot thing
BRB

yup, i was able to logon to my gmail account ommiting the dot and omitting the @gmail.com
also, i sent an email without the dot from my work email to my gmail

hrrrmmmph

 

[destrekor]

Uh, you won't be getting anybody else's mail.

Nobody can register "supersssnail" if you registered "super.sssnail".

This also works handy if you feel like creating some crazy addressing/routing/folder scheme. If you want email from friends to go to a specific folder, no matter which account they use, you can tell them to send email to "super.s.ssnail" and setup a filter in Gmail to route email sent to that address to a specific folder (er.. label). Yet you can also setup a filter to do something similar for "super.sss.nail.", and another for "supersssnail".

 

[fatpat268]

Pretty old news. People have used this trick to sign up on websites for multiple accounts with only one email.

 

[SSSnail]

Uh, you won't be getting anybody else's mail.

Nobody can register "supersssnail" if you registered "super.sssnail".

This also works handy if you feel like creating some crazy addressing/routing/folder scheme. If you want email from friends to go to a specific folder, no matter which account they use, you can tell them to send email to "super.s.ssnail" and setup a filter in Gmail to route email sent to that address to a specific folder (er.. label). Yet you can also setup a filter to do something similar for "super.sss.nail.", and another for "supersssnail".

Well, one of the reasons why I kept thinking I'm getting others email is because I'm actually getting personal emails, addressed to them, but it's in my inbox.

I think it's probably because the other person gave the email address before he registered the none dotted address? And did not realize the email address is no longer available?

It is odd though, as it is hex 2E...

 

[herm0016]

this is so 3 years ago....

 

[silverpig]

Hot tip: You don't have to type in the http:// before web addresses either!

 

[FoBoT]

Hot tip: You don't have to type in the http:// before web addresses either!

but we need the www. like they say on the tv commercials, right?

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Well, one of the reasons why I kept thinking I'm getting others email is because I'm actually getting personal emails, addressed to them, but it's in my inbox.

I think it's probably because the other person gave the email address before he registered the none dotted address? And did not realize the email address is no longer available?

It is odd though, as it is hex 2E...

Or maybe they're mistyping supersssnail. There's a lot of "S"s in there. Not hard to miss one or throw in an extra. The point is no one can register any combination of your e-mail address with periods in it; they're all yours. Any mail you get is being sent to you, whether intentionally or not.

 

[pyonir]

I have a gmail with my first and last name with a period in the middle. Someone else signed up and must have a letter of somewhere in it, because I constantly get his emails. He types it wrong or something and they end up coming to me. I got a receipt for a limo service once, and a uhaul service another time. I used to email the company back, telling them they have the wrong email and they might want to contact they guy.

Hell I had a realtor write me and ask me if I was still looking...replied back that I'm not the person she was looking for and she claimed it was sad that I didn't remember her. I live in Minnesota and she's a realtor in California...had to explain to her I've never even been to Cali and have never shopped for a house.

I just delete them now, and if I continue to get emails (like the ones from Apple he signed up for, and the ones from EASports where he keeps requesting his password) I just set up a rule to delete them automatically. It's fucking annoying.

 

[Stayfr0sty]

Google=Skynet

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Google=Skynet

:whiste:

 

[lxskllr]

Is that behavior typical of mail protocol, or is it peculiar to Google? It's convenient if it's a standard, but a headache if not.

 

[seepy83]

Is that behavior typical of mail protocol, or is it peculiar to Google? It's convenient if it's a standard, but a headache if not.

I believe this is specific to google. It has more to do with the way google handles accounts than just a mail protocol. You can log in to your google account using periods in your username or no periods...they don't care.

 

[reallyscrued]

Google=Skynet

Not it's not.

 

[GotIssues]

Old news. If your mind was blown by that, look up what you can do with the + symbol.

 

[bignateyk]

If you register with firstname.lastname@gmail.com nobody else can register with any variation of it with or without a dot. I.e., firstnamelastname@gmail.com or f.irstnamelastname@gmail.com couldn't be registered since you already have firstname.lastname@gmail.com

As far as googles system is concerned, the dot doesn't exist in your address.

 

[DrPizza]

A couple years ago, I got a hotel room while on a business (goat) trip. I got into some rewards program.

Apparently, there's another person with my same name who has since enrolled in a rewards program. I'm not sure what he did with his email, but he managed to tie his account to mine via gmail. Thanks! I'm raking in the rewards points. Last I checked, I had enough for a free weekend somewhere.

 

[Stayfr0sty]

Not it's not.

Ever wonder where all those increasing megs of storage space are coming from when you open Gmail?

 

[cronos]

this is so 3 years ago....

More like 8 years. This and the + is one of the very first features of GMail when it comes out in 2004.

 

[Spacehead]

If you register with firstname.lastname@gmail.com nobody else can register with any variation of it with or without a dot. I.e., firstnamelastname@gmail.com or f.irstnamelastname@gmail.com couldn't be registered since you already have firstname.lastname@gmail.com

As far as googles system is concerned, the dot doesn't exist in your address.

So why did it not let me have firstnamelastname@gmail.com(already taken) but accepted firstname.lastname@gmail.com ?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I remember hearing this a while back, pretty big flaw if you ask me. Easy way to get anybody's mail lolz. That's one of the reasons I don't use 3rd party email. Lack of control of how the system works.

 

[cronos]

So why did it not let me have firstnamelastname@gmail.com(already taken) but accepted firstname.lastname@gmail.com ?

It doesn't matter what it say. If you can register one you have the other as well as they're one and the same. You can use whichever one you want.

I remember hearing this a while back, pretty big flaw if you ask me. Easy way to get anybody's mail lolz. That's one of the reasons I don't use 3rd party email. Lack of control of how the system works.

It's not a flaw, it's a feature. If you have one you also have the other. Nobody is getting anybody else's email.

 

[0roo0roo]

isn't this one of those anti spam tips...so you can tell which bastard leaked your email?

 

[Red Squirrel]

It doesn't matter what it say. If you can register one you have the other as well as they're one and the same. You can use whichever one you want.



It's not a flaw, it's a feature. If you have one you also have the other. Nobody is getting anybody else's email.

But if I register something.something@gmail and someone else registers somethingsomething wont they be getting my mail? Or vise versa?