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You are talking about naming conventions, that's something completely different. GMail does not enforce any 'firstname.lastname' patterns.
by soulclap 16y ago
You are talking about naming conventions, that's something completely different. GMail does not enforce any 'firstname.lastname' patterns.
- frobozz 16y agoCompletely different to standards-compliance, yes. However it is exactly the same thing as GMail's alphanumeric only rule. To reiterate - the mailbox names that a email provider will provide are subject to the naming conventions defined by that provider. Whether the convention is firstname.lastname; 5-7 characters only; alphabetic only; or 13375p34k transcriptions of characters from Lord of the Rings. None of that has anything to do with whether they are standards-compliant. The test is whether they will send email to any RFC-compliant email address regardless of whether it conforms to their own mailbox naming convention. Gmail does.