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I love the way most services treat dotted addresses as separate addresses. So for example if you wanted multiple accounts on $service you could register the fol
by blindm 6y ago
I love the way most services treat dotted addresses as separate addresses. So for example if you wanted multiple accounts on $service you could register the following:
john.doe@gmail.com
j.ohndoe@gmail.com
jo.hndoe@gmail.com
joh.ndoe@gmail.com
johnd.oe@gmail.com
johndo.e@gmail.com
And now you have six accounts, with the bonus of receiving mail in the same inbox for each account!
- har33sh 6y agoYou can also add multiple dots :)
- blindm 6y agoYes but I imagine most services would spot that as an invalid address? Although it's worth trying something like john...doe@googlemail.com To see if it passes as a valid address. Don't use this for evil, okay?
- justin_oaks 6y agoNo, not multiple dots in a row. They still have to be between two non-dot characters. Two dots in the email instead of one: j.o.hndoe@gmail.com j.oh.ndoe@gmail.com j.ohn.doe@gmail.com j.ohnd.oe@gmail.com j.ohndo.e@gmail.com jo.h.ndoe@gmail.com ... johnd.o.e@gmail.com
- black3r 6y agoAnd if you somehow didn't know there is the possibility of adding +anything to your email, so that you can do john.doe+servicename@gmail.com and know which service leaked your email to spammers/advertisers
- toddmatthews 6y agoyou can do that with gmail with the + character. john.doe+beta@gmail.com john.doe+delta@gmail.com they all go to the same address
- acruns 6y agoYou can also use @googlemail.com domain name instead of @gmail.com to double the number of email addresses.
- blindm 6y agoYes, you could do even more shenanigans registering with the following: john.doe+uniquestring@gmail.com j.ohndoe+uniquestring@gmail.com jo.hndoe+uniquestring@gmail.com joh.ndoe+uniquestring@gmail.com johnd.oe+uniquestring@gmail.com johndo.e+uniquestring@gmail.com john.doe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com j.ohndoe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com jo.hndoe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com joh.ndoe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com johnd.oe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com johndo.e+uniquestring@@googlemail.com
- blindm 6y agoOops there's a mistake there; there's supposed to be just one `@` symbol!
- kevincox 6y agoIt is worth noting that these are different addresses. They all go to the same inbox but that isn't part of the "email API". Of course some services don't like this so they special case gmail.com addresses to try to block this but it is perfectly legal for a mail server to route these to different mailboxes (such as GSuite accounts do).
- FabHK 6y agowell, using the dot between any two letters or not, you have 2^6 = 64 combinations (without even using double or triple dots...)