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Just an aside, you can ignore the dot on your email, or add as many as you like. Google ignores periods on email addresses. Just google it... :D
by kwelstr 8y ago
Just an aside, you can ignore the dot on your email, or add as many as you like. Google ignores periods on email addresses. Just google it... :D
- dgzl 8y agoAnother fun feature with Gmail is that you can add arbitrary text to the end of your email addresses. This can be helpful if you're interested in tracking the origins of where your received emails come from. For instance, if you sign up your address at a website and start recieving sketchy emails with a destination for myemail+thatwebsite[at]gmail, you can easily find out where the leakage occurred.
- setr 8y agoAren’t both of those things relatively standard for email in general
- callahad 8y agoPlus-based subaddresses are relatively common (sendmail supports them, Sieve has RFC 5233, etc), but dot-insensitivity is/was unique to gmail as far as I'm aware.
- aaaaaaaaaab 8y agoUnless the spammer knows about this too and trims any +suffixes from the addresses.
- brianpgordon 8y agoFastMail thought of this and lets you use subdomains instead. So user@tag.domain gets delivered to your mailbox as user+tag@domain.
- xte 8y agoHem it's not a GMail specific feature but a common one (sub-addressing/plus addressing, RFC 5233) that skip inbox and drop messages in the +$name/tag dir/label... The GMail specific feature is adding dots as you want in your mail localpart so (foobar, f.oo.bar, f.o.o.b.a.r etc @gmail are the very same mailbox).
- kposehn 8y agoOk, that I did not know. Thanks!
- znpy 8y agoAhem. There's someone with whom I apparently share both first name, last name and, against our will, the gmail email address. So apparently my email address is lastname.firstname@gmail.com (firstname.lastname@gmail.com was already taken) and this guy has lastnamefirstname@gmail.com. How cool that GMail ignores dots in the middle, right ? Sometimes I wonder if he is receiving my emails, because I often receive his emails. I tried and forwarded him his email, GMail was stupid enough to deliver them back to my inbox. The "ignore the dots in the middle" is truly a major google brain fart. This is to say... Like, Just, be aware of this.
- aidanlister 8y agoThat is not correct, likely this other person incorrectly gave out your email accidentally.
- wyldfire 8y agoIndeed this must be the case. I share the same given and family name with several folks in the US and I get their mistaken emails all the time.
- johnchristopher 8y agoWait, what ? How could that not have triggered a test somewhere at Google ? Did they just implement the dot thing after they already created both addresses ?
- bigtunacan 8y agoI'm going to chime in here since everyone downvoted the OP. My guess is he got the Gmail account early. This was a known bug early with Gmail. They fixed the signups, but it seems there were some issues that continued if you had already gotten an email address that collided prior to the"fix". I created an account for my daughter that had this issue and it was really messed up; we can see emails sent and received by another person which included a bunch of personal information; job application conversations, flight details, etc... We ended up just switching our daughter to a new address, but if we had a more malicious nature; this is a big security issue.
- kposehn 8y agoYep - I just default to it generally, but I know I can just get rid of it. Force of habit :P