| Why am I getting other persons email ? | nitin.shukla | 7/2/09 1:59 PM | I have been getting other peoples emails ever since I signed up for Gmail beta a couple of years ago. Some posts mention that any combination of my first and last name is mine so I will get those emails. Was this the case in BETA as well ? It seem |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 7/5/09 6:38 AM | Messages addressed to you account will only go to your account. Any combination of dots in your account name still reach your account and no one else's.First.last, Firstlast and f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t. ALL go to your account. Any mail that comes into yo |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | JohnyR | 7/5/09 10:27 AM | Be careful, some of them might be even spam |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | TJC | 7/5/09 10:33 AM | You're absolutely right, I am getting other peoples email because my username flastname, and it was still sent to me as f.lastname. I even logged into my account trying f.lastname and it worked. There's definitely a problem on GMAIL's end. |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | JohnyR | 7/5/09 11:37 AM | It is not a mistake - on the contrary, the "point" in address is something like a bonus feature. Mr. Tom Jones can register e.g. tjones, and as a "bonus" he can use t.jones - and everythin will be arrived correctly. You can even use it as a help with |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | meedwards | 7/14/09 12:07 PM | Well, the ability to use a dot may be a "feature" rather than a "bug", but I am getting another person's email because of it. Her gmail address is in the form firstnam...@gmail.com. Mine is in the form firstname...@gmail.com. I don't know if she get |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Joshua | 7/14/09 12:18 PM | @meedwards: This other person does not own the address firstnamelastname. That address is yours. You, and only you, get all mail sent to that address (and all other versions of your address containing dots). What you are seeing is simply someone with |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | benine | 7/29/09 1:54 PM | Sadly, this is not the case for what I am experiencing. I have tried to test "ping" my "alternate" gmail address and it does not come through to my inbox. I was an early, early adopter (back when invites were being sold on ebay and craigslist...remem |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 7/29/09 2:02 PM | @benine, you won't see a message sent to yourself in your Inbox - Gmail recognises the incoming message as the same as the outgoing message and only shows the one copy. Try the same thing sent to your first.last address. To truly test this you will |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | meedwards | 7/29/09 2:18 PM | Keith, you're right! I just now tried sending to both firstnam...@gmail.com and firstname...@gmail.com from another email account I have, and they both arrived. And benine, I too thought it was because I was an early adopter, BEFORE they were sold o |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 7/29/09 7:43 PM | @meedwards, Thank you for posting your results. It is really nice to have someone confirm our advice rather than argue!!Your experience and feedback will do more to assure the average user than 10 TCs ranting about how Google claims to manage user n |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | kartik.kumar | 8/7/09 8:58 AM | Now I have had this problem for a while where i am receiving the email meant for firs...@gmail.com (I have first...@gmail.com) I figured it was just that other person giving his email out wrong because I have been receiving his emails for a long time |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | JohnW2 | 8/7/09 9:06 AM | This Help page clarifies the position http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10313# so you're encouraged to read it. You aren't able to contact Gmail staff, unless you're a paid-up user of a Premier account. Google don't have peopl |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | pamlee | 8/7/09 11:22 AM | @kartik.kumar, I have been receiving account reset emails and craigslist password reset emails (even though craigslist cannot find an account under my email) within the past several weeks and another person signing up for a twitter account (no confi |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | meedwards | 8/7/09 12:04 PM | I thought I had stopped receiving emails addressed to another person who seems to have firstnam...@gmail.com (no dot), but I just got another one. I have firstname...@gmail.com, AND I AM able to send myself emails at firstnam...@gmail.com, which su |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | kartik.kumar | 8/7/09 12:30 PM | what really concerns me is that the email i'm receiving for the "other person" isn't spam, but personal emails that are obviously addressed to the other person...I understand it happening once or twice giving out the wrong email, but looking through |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | JohnW2 | 8/7/09 12:59 PM | All I can do is encourage you to write back to these people, and explain the situation.If these messages are of a personal nature, then the writers will be embarrassed that they've sent them to you nd wonder how they've got to the wrong person, and h |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 8/7/09 10:48 PM | @pamlee, the best challenge you can give the other pamlee is to log in to her account that she believes is the same as yours and check the address that is shown at the top right of the page. If she sees the same email address as she claims, then she |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | fishtopia | 8/16/09 2:28 PM | i have been having this problem for the past year, when apparently someone registered the same version of my email without the dot. Like a lot of you, i got a gmail account when it was limited supply and very new-- maybe this is part of the problem? |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 8/16/09 2:34 PM | @fishtopia, please read the whole thread. Then you will know what to do about your situation. |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | MoebiusStrip | 8/24/09 12:58 PM | Hello nitin.shukla. I have the exact same problem as you. I was an early gmail adopter, and I continuously receive somebody else's email. however, if I run the fname...@gmail.com vs fname...@gmail.com I receive both emails. Since this hasn't been |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | meedwards | 8/24/09 1:21 PM | All of us who are reporting this problem are lacking one important thing: proof that the problem is gmail's. We have been told that this cannot happen, that when you receive someone else's mail, the person sending the mail has made a spelling error. |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Joshua | 8/24/09 1:23 PM | As has been repeatedly explained in this thread, you receive someone else's mail because their correspondents miss-address the mail and send to one of your address rather than the correct address. If you received lots of wrong-number phone calls, wou |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Joshua | 8/24/09 1:26 PM | @meedwards: I applaud your desire to look for proof, but you are wasting your time. In several of the hundreds of other threads on this topic, people have been in contact with the person whose mail they were mistakenly receiving. Sometimes they reall |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | meedwards | 8/24/09 1:47 PM | Joshua: Thanks for this. It must be frustrating to have to repeat this over and over, but in fact, it does "prove" to me that due diligence has been made. While thousands of negative proofs will not outweigh a single positive one, they certainly conv |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | theinternot | 9/2/09 1:45 PM | I thought I would chime in here with a quick account of my own email problem receiving other people's email. I have been experiencing these same problems for about a year now. I was convinced it was the "." issue. Well, today I received an online p |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | C.W.Gordon | 9/3/09 8:16 PM | I've been experiencing the same issues as mentioned above. @meedwards, I sent myself a 'misspelled' gmail addy from an account ouside gmail. When I looked at the header information, this is what I saw. fmlas...@gmail.com (Yes, this is you.) Learn mo |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Christiano | 11/3/09 4:47 PM | Hi, I'm new to gmail, infact any kind of email, and I mistyped my name when I created my account, can someone tell me how to change that so that when I send things my name is spelt correctly, Thanks in advance. |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 11/3/09 8:31 PM | @Christiano, you are probably new to Help Forum too, so I will be gentle. When you have a question, please use the Post a question link at the top left of this page rather than add your problem as a reply to another person's question. Presuming that |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | mickwheeler | 11/12/09 2:22 PM | I am receiving mail that is not addressed to me... not BCC'd and not a dot issue. My address is: mickw...@gmail.com and the mail I'm receiving is: mchlw...@gmail.com Can anyone suggest a fix? These are not all spam or sales messages. Thanks in adv |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 11/12/09 3:22 PM | Mick, there's no way you can be getting it unless your address is in there somewhere. If you post the headers here, someone will be able to explain how. Alternatively, have a look yourself: use Show Original from the drop down list just to the right |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | a.hughes | 11/12/09 5:45 PM | I am also quite convinced that I am receiving someone else's e-mails (yes a real person). When I originally signed up with Gmail in 2004, I tried to claim 'ahughes' as my e-mail address, but it said that 'ahughes' was unavailable as it had already be |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 11/12/09 6:49 PM | @a.hughes, don't take our word for it. Sign out of Gmail, sign in as ahu...@gmail.com with your password, observe the results.Repeat with ahughes@googlemail,com. a.hu...@googlemail.com and a.hu...@gmail.com. |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | a.hughes | 11/12/09 7:09 PM | @KeithR I have done as you and others in this thread have said with many variations, and yes it does log me in as the name I registered with. I've also had friends email 'a.h.u.g.h.e.s.' and the emails do arrive in my inbox. But I can't shake the fee |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 11/12/09 8:01 PM | I have to admit that is of some concern. I would like to suggest that you made a typing error and tried to get "ahughs" and it (fortunately) wasn't available, but I don't have a lot of confidence in that piece of apologetics. In short, all I can re |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | a.hughes | 11/12/09 8:23 PM | @KeithR You're right, I'm always very careful when typing in a username / account that I know I will be heavily using for many years to come. And yes, I've pretty much resigned to the fact that there has been no sign of anyone using or accessing any |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Kirbster | 11/24/09 8:32 PM | Regardless of what Googlers are telling people, it is possible to ghet some one else's google email. The problem lies with googlemail,com. While firstnam...@gmail.com is the same as firstname...@gmail.com, that isnt the case wit http://googlemail.com. It |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 11/24/09 9:08 PM | I don't believe you and I'm not even Google. Please try this: sign out of Google Mail. Sign in with the user name "firstname.lastname" (being your user name but with the dot) using your password. Let us know whether Gmail accepts this and also let |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | andiepowell | 12/6/09 4:18 PM | Obviously, GMAIL has a few bugs on there end as TJC wrote. This is a problem I have heard of but never experienced myself. I advise any newcomers to GMAIL to not put things like "points" in there name. Here is an example: Susie sent Jerry an e-ma |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 12/6/09 5:09 PM | @andiepowell, it doesn't help at all. Your post is nonsense, because it implies that there is a difference. You are right when you say "The point she inserted did not make a difference." But, both of those "accounts" that you describe correspond t |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | james.hawkins | 12/9/09 1:45 PM | My e-mail is first...@gmail.com and I, too, was a beta tester for Gmail. I receive e-mails for firs...@googlemail.com (no dot, different hostname). Back in 2005, there was a dispute regarding the Gmail trademark in the UK, which led to the creation |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 12/9/09 4:20 PM | James, I have news for you. It is still theft if someone "accidentally" gives it to you. Same as when the bank makes an error and deposits a sum in your account with a few extra zeros on the right - you are in a lot of trouble if you spend that! It |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | parigot | 12/10/09 4:41 PM | My email is also first...@gmail.com and I was another early adopter, when you still had to have an invitation to use gmail. For at least a year I have been getting email in French for a Frenchman with a *completely* different name and email address t |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Joshua | 12/10/09 4:44 PM | Have you read the standard help page (linked above and below)? It will tell you to open up one of these messages using "show original" on the menu next to Reply in the upper right. Look near the top of the full headers for X-Forwarded-... headers. If |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Kirbster | 12/14/09 7:59 AM | Keith, I dont care that you dont believe me. You are wrong and sound pretty stupid making the same argument when you dont know what you are talking about.. This is a known bug with Google. Since you dont work there, all you have to go on is what you |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Joshua | 12/14/09 8:10 AM | Kirbster: Please show us the proof. If it is convincing, we can attract the attention of a google employee. I won't try to attract the attention of a google employee now because we've seen hundreds of people make claims very similar to yours, and not |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Kirbster | 12/14/09 8:34 AM | I already have. What you guys dont seem to understand is back when Google let the http://gmail.co.uk domain slip away, they had to come up with an alternative. That was Googlemail.com and that is where the problem lies. There were duplicates issued at that |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Joshua | 12/14/09 8:44 AM | We are perfectly aware of the gmail/googlemail issue. In fact, I'm pretty sure I know more about it than you do. There were never accounts at http://gmail.co.uk. (Gmail doesn't use any country-specific domains.) What happened was that gmail lost a trademark |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Kirbster | 12/14/09 9:31 AM | IWho are you? |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Joshua | 12/14/09 9:35 AM | Why do you care? Either you have evidence or you don't. I'm simply another gmail user who, due to the excessive time I spend in this forum, has a way of asking a google employee to come and look at this thread. And I'll be sure to do that if you real |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Kirbster | 12/14/09 9:44 AM | Just what I thought. You and keith are just blowhards with too much time time on your hands who think you know everything. I have my own connections. I'll go that route. This help forum is a complete waste if a Googler isnt bothering to filter out f |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Joshua | 12/14/09 9:47 AM | As I expected, you don't have any proof at all. As is clearly stated when you post a question here, this is a user community. If you aren't interested in getting help from other users, then it is you who are wasting our time. |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | meedwards | 12/14/09 11:42 AM | Kirbster - Please! There are lots of us out here who haven't seen your evidence. Please, just post it. There's no need for name-calling when all that's needed is a simple proof. Joshua posted the steps to making the proof. They don't seem that comp |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | PaulaLouise | 12/14/09 1:42 PM | I must admit that I am extremely concerned that Google simply deny that there is a problem that is basically a huge security risk. I have today received two e-mails just as the others above, without dots and googlemail rather than my gmail. One of |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 12/14/09 7:03 PM | No, she has signed up for a g[oogle]mail account and given the wrong email address to the other places as per meedwards description. The messages CANNOT go to two places, so if they are coming to you, they are NOT going to her. There is no securit |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | doofus_mcdoofus | 12/20/09 4:41 PM | Of course there is a problem!! DUH!! I am getting the same thing. My email is firstnam...@gmail.com Someone else has the exact same name as me but uses a dot, period.... their's is firstname...@gmail.com. I am getting their emails ALL the time |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 12/20/09 8:01 PM | doofus, that's not their account name. They have given out a variation of your account name by mistake. To prove this for yourself, try the login tests I described on 11/25/09 and 12/7/09. |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Marq | 12/21/09 11:43 AM | I have been having the same issues as reported by several others here for a long time now. I signed up for gmail early on as well. I signed up to get an email of the form mailto:startingletteroffirstname.lastname@gmail.com, which I got. I personally do not |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 1/3/10 8:32 PM | @Marq, there is no way Google can set up an "automatic 'email could not be delivered' message ", because it has been delivered...to you. For better or worse, Google have chosen to ignore all dots in email addresses. This means that all variations o |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | StevenBlair | 1/3/10 9:45 PM | I too am getting the same problem. I signed up for the mailto:firstname.surname@gmail.com account, and until recently (the past year) have started receiving other peoples emails. It is really annoying, mainly from the point I am getting others personal e |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 1/4/10 12:40 AM | Steven, when you get a letter in your mail box, addressed to someone you don't know, do you blame the Post Office? I blame the person who wrote the wrong address on the letter. Google is just the post office, there is nothing they can do about peop |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | gwu777 | 1/4/10 1:10 AM | I have just read this very fascinating topic. I want to thank Keith for his patience. Just for information, when ymal came out, I was very pleased to be able to get emma...@ymail.com, 5 days later I closed it, why, because I received 100 email a day |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | djrosen | 1/4/10 7:05 AM | Are you people kidding me? Keith I applaud your patience! I imagine you are in a customer service position for a paying job because I cant imagine anyone being this nice, repeating the same facts over and over while people stick their fingers in thie |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Kirbster | 1/15/10 8:17 AM | Kieth is not a person with internal Gmail access. There is a very real issue with duplicate gmail addresses where the dupe is in the UK. My US evidence is from PayPal where they have explained that my gmail account has been banned by PayPal from thi |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Kirbster | 1/15/10 8:22 AM | Hey Google! What does it take to get someone there to do something? Pull your head out of your Mt View asses and put someone one here who has a fucking clue instead of the two asswipes on here who think they are infallible. Do I have your attention |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/15/10 2:59 PM | Keith does not get paid, Joshua doesn't get paid, I don't get paid so I'm going to try to finalise this argument. When you receive a wrongfully addressed mail and it appears that the sender knows the person they meant to email send a reply asking the |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Graham123 | 1/15/10 3:04 PM | All - thank you for the posts. Can you clarify for me.... I received an email from a company in the UK and the email was typed to my gmail handle, with the http://googlemail.com extension. Since this was regarding my "name twin's" confirmation of car renta |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 1/15/10 3:09 PM | @Kirbster, your offensive posts were removed (not by me). Our challenge remains: Sign out from Gmail and try to log in with any of these variations of your account name. Assuming your Gmail user name is Kirbster, try (using your usual password):Kirb |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/15/10 3:20 PM | Graham123, Just above your post is the solution. They have the actual home address and probably phone number for the person who ordered the tickets and ask them to either correct their mistake or contact the person who ordered them and ask for the c |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Graham123 | 1/15/10 3:29 PM | Thanks Keith - if that last post was for me....and not Kirbster. So, I logged in with the http://googlemail.com extension with my http://gmail.com password, and got into my mailbox. In the upper right corner, it shows the official account name as my http://gmail.com na |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Graham123 | 1/15/10 3:33 PM | Thanks C Man. so there is no such thing as http://googlemail.com? I'll email the actual NCP ltd. - Car Park in the UK and inform them to call the other Graham by phone. I'm nice, but cheap. At least he'll get his trip booked. Thanks again gents. Graham |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | pamlee | 1/15/10 3:33 PM | Keith, thanks for your patience. I've confirmed that only I have access to all variations of my Gmail by trying your suggestion: Logged out and logged in with firs...@gmail.com - works; logging in status and account name at top right are correct. |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/15/10 3:57 PM | Sorry Graham but there is a Googlemail which is Gmail and this was pointed out in previous answers. Gmail was not allowed throughout Europe as the name belongs to a German Company so Google had to use Googlemail instead. |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Window_Shopper | 2/13/10 10:10 AM | Thanks Keith and Joshua for your patient replies. I got my gmail address within a week of its first beta launch - 2004 May 10th. GMail support used to reply to the users and respond to suggestions, bugs back then! I am convinced that I'm the only o |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Joshua | 2/13/10 1:17 PM | @Window_Shopper: As a very-early gmail subscriber, you probably grabbed a "popular" address -- ie, a common name combination or something similar. These are the easiest to accidentally use. People who have the username jsmith57 can very easily leave |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 2/13/10 5:10 PM | @Window_shopper, I have an unrelated question for you. Apologies for mis-using the thread! How many spam messages do you get per day? When I opened my Gmail account, I deliberately chose an arcane user name because as a system administrator in the |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | like.i.care | 2/24/10 7:22 AM | Thanks to this 'feature' my account (aavalos), gets on a daily basis the quilting email from some elderly women in new mexico, homeworks from a college kid in peru, the movie rental notifications from a guy in florida and chain mail from a extremely |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | meedwards | 2/25/10 9:40 AM | Keith, Joshua - could I interest you in taking a look at the thread "My POP mail is not being automatically fetched" at http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?fid=4cbf89429699e6670004804b53416eb6&hl=en It's getting quite a few responder |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Joshua | 2/25/10 12:29 PM | @meedwards: @bkennelly has posted in a similar thread and reported the issue to a google employee. |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | davidlk | 2/25/10 12:46 PM | My issue has nothing to do with dots. I have discovered that emails being sent to me are ending up in the inbox of someone else. The only difference in our account names is that I have my middle initial in between first and last name and he doesn't h |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/25/10 1:08 PM | Probably because the L does not show up clearly enough when you inform them of your address and they are getting it wrong when they send emails out. Ask them to check the address they have listed. |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | meedwards | 2/25/10 2:40 PM | Joshua - Thanks! Keith was kind enough to point us to the status page - very interesting! |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/25/10 4:39 PM | james, Read Keith's reply. The names were never duplicated as Google always was set to recognise both as the same. |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | Kirbster | 3/4/10 7:24 AM | You can delete what ever you want, but it doesnt change the fact that you are flat out wrong. If the only way to get a google employee's attention here is to keep reminding Kieth that he has his head up his ass, then so be it. They should do somethin |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | meedwards | 3/4/10 7:47 AM | Kirbster, please keep your replies civil. Name calling is a grade-school playground activity and gets us nowhere closer to what we are looking for, which is answers to our questions. I've been following this thread for quite some time, and the proce |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 3/4/10 5:03 PM | @Kirbster, while you might have thought you were clever to delete your post or someone else might have deleted it because of the crudity, I still read it because I receive email notifications. My head is where it belongs - on top of my neck. I am p |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | pamlee | 3/4/10 5:36 PM | Hi, I'm still quietly reading this thread from my email notifications. Since there have been more than one "me" or people from different parts of the world (it has gone international) that have emailed my account, I've been replying with the followi |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | JohnW2 | 3/5/10 11:13 AM | Good for you, pamlee! That's the best way to show people that they've mis-recorded, mis-read or mis-typed the address. |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | jw128 | 12/6/10 3:11 PM | I've been getting what I thought was other people's e-mail but having done the "Show Original" tip then I see the messages were sent to _my_ e-mail address. What worries me is that I have received several sequences of e-mails that follow the sequenc |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | KeithR | 12/6/10 5:57 PM | @jw128: "Let's assume that the www.something.or.other web-site is a reputable one. Then receiving e-mail #2 seems to imply to me that somehow the verification code sent to _my_ e-mail address has also been received by whoever registered at that web-s |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | nitin.shukla | 1/14/11 4:59 PM | I still get emails not meant for me. And I would like to ask all those Googlers who defend googles inaction in this case, who types email addresses anymore. you usually add ppl to contact list either by copy/paste or when you get an email from them |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/14/11 5:05 PM | nitin, Get onto one of the banks and tell them they need to inform the person who is doing it that they will not cover any discrepancies in his account if he can't get things correct or wait until he buys something really worthwhile and have it re-d |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | JohnW2 | 1/15/11 3:28 AM | @nitin.shukla - as one of those I think you're referring to, I have to say I agree: "who does?" But if the person sending out their messages has used an incorrect e-mail address in their "Send mail as: " section, you'll simply be responding to that a |
| Re: Why am I getting other persons email ? | meedwards | 1/15/11 12:12 PM | It can be tough to find the person who originally mistyped their email address, using yours instead, but if you are willing to write to the people who wrote to you (being careful that you're not writing to spammers), over time, the message can get ar |