That Another John Doe never, ever had access to johndoe@gmail.com, they just gave a wrong address. That's not gmail's fault. This. My wife and I have two flav

That Another John Doe never, ever had access to johndoe@gmail.com, they just gave a wrong address. That's not gmail's fault. This. My wife and I have two flavors of this. Her address is firstmlast@gmail.com. There people frequently forget the m initial and somebody else owns firstlast@gmail.com She's since started using dots first.m.last to mitigate the error. My address is firstlast@gmail, where first and last are not globally common, but are fairly common in Scotland. Once a year or so, I receive email for somebody else that shares my name. I don' know his real email, but I've been "invited" on his family vacations 3-4 times now. Infrequent enough that I just respond "thanks for the invite, but I think you'll be disappointed when I arrive and not the Alistair you were expecting."