| Receiving email not addressed to me... | durpani | 4/29/12 9:14 PM | Hi, I am writing this on behalf of my wife. Her gmail address is first...@gmail.com. There must be another gmail account of the form firs...@gmail.com i.e. the "dot" is not present. My wife keeps on receiving email addressed to firs...@gmail.com ev |
| Re: Receiving email not addressed to me... | Somnath. | 4/29/12 10:29 PM | Hi, You are right. Gmail doesn't recognize dots in username. So when you register an username, you own all variations of it, with or without dots. Therefore,abc...@gmail.com is same as abc...@gmail.com or mailto:abcd.ef@gmail.com Unfortunately, you can't re |
| Re: Receiving email not addressed to me... | Gouty - TC Gmail & Chrome Rising Star! | 4/29/12 10:31 PM | You are absolutely right. Both of them can't exist. There is only one email ID (doesn't matter the dot is present or not). So how can Gmail remove this?It is possible that Sometimes you may receive a message sent to an address that looks like exactly |
| Re: Receiving email not addressed to me... | durpani | 4/30/12 1:58 AM | Guys Thanks for your replies. The problem is that at some point Google must have allowed two different people (separate users) to set up email addresses of the form first...@gmail.com and firs...@gmail.com because this is the exact situation that my |
| Re: Receiving email not addressed to me... | icantchooseone | 4/30/12 2:48 AM | thats never ever happened - look at the date on this >> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21msg/gmail-past-discussions/875tBWfIFwI/3Xb8JZxTxfwJ you can filter all mail sent to firs...@gmail.com to trash as filters recognise dots more re |