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Yeah, they do complicated things like this, but leave out simple fixes like email accounts with dots in the address. If a Googler is reading this, yes, I have
by vkaku 8y ago
Yeah, they do complicated things like this, but leave out simple fixes like email accounts with dots in the address.
If a Googler is reading this, yes, I have a real problem with Gmail.
- thepangolino 8y agoI think that’s a feature not a bug.
- josteink 8y agoIt’s non-standard behavior and open Gmail-users up for attacks. This has already been discussed many times on HN.
- vkaku 8y agoIt's per the RFC standard but it cannot be blindly followed in Gmail due to their signups issue. Yes, they did allow A.B@gmail.com and AB@gmail.com to sign up, and each of these is mapped to a different Inbox. And an email that goes to A.B@gmail.com also goes to AB@gmail.com. And yes, this opens Gmail users for attacks, phising amplification and much more!
- kiwijamo 8y agoI have a Gmail account with a dot in it. Works just fine. Yes you can leave off the dot and/or add more dots. But there is nothing broken about that.
- vkaku 8y agoIt works fine, except when it doesn't. They let another guy sign up with dots and I get his emails, letters from his girlfriend, bank statements and what not. And at some point, they stopped doing these erroneous signups. But I still keep getting these emails because they strip all the dots and relay them. This is just terrible. I don't care about the -4 as much as I care about someone understanding how serious this issue really is.