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Re: *@gmail.com

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Post by Bluecobra »

nmeofthestate wrote: post #86
rcarmo wrote: post #3

This is a great reminder that Gmail ignores dots on the left side of the @ symbol, which means I am constantly getting e-mail for other people. The “+” tagging was a great idea, but the fact that incorrect address matching has become a “feature” (and not fixed over decades) plus constant spates of spam has made me believe there’s nobody left at the helm who actually understands e-mail. I’ve kept my Gmail addresses fo…

> This is a great reminder that Gmail ignores dots on the left side of the @ symbol, which means I am constantly getting e-mail for other people. Genuinely confused - which other people? There are no other people with your Gmail address but added/removed '.' characters. What you're seeing is people sending emails to the wrong email address - nothing to do with presence or absence of '.' characters. Allowing addresses…

> I've been getting wrong Gmail emails all the time for years because a woman in Saskatchewan keeps getting her email wrong when signing up to stuff online.

I have the same problem but multiplied by 25x due to having a gmail address from 2004 when it was still invite only. It’s really annoying that there’s so many services that don’t verify email addresses…

Re: *@gmail.com

#132

Post by Fuzzwah »

InsomniacL wrote: post #111
martin_a wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

johndoe@gmail.com and john.doe@gmail.com are obviously two different addresses. At least for me. I don't see why the first one should receive mails from the second one.

They are two different addresses, think of the second as an alias to the first. Google creates an alias for every possible combination of dotted email address to your primary. If you don't want to use the feature, you don't have to. Lots of people find it extremely useful. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en#zippy=%... > if your email is johnsmith@gmail.com, you own all dotted versions of your addres…

It wasn't always that way on gmail. I have a long-lived account and someone else has in the past had a working address of the same words without the dot but always used the @googlemail.com address.

Note: my bit of research into this taught me that the googlemail.com domain is used by Gmail users in Germany, Russia, and Poland where the Gmail trademark was already taken 1. In each case, Google was forced to use “googlemail” and therefore googlemail.com instead. As of 2012, the situation with Germany was straightened out and new users to Gmail there get assigned a gmail.com domain.

Re: *@gmail.com

#133

Post by benrapscallion »

mcdonje wrote: post #68

Filter: Subject contains "new friends" Action: Play sound [if working in office], Forward to "[initial sender]", Mark as read, Move to trash

Emails can only be forwarded to verified accounts (i.e, owned by the person setting up the forwarding rule)

Re: *@gmail.com

#134

Post by numpad0 »

xigoi wrote: post #46
vvillena wrote: post #41

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It's a problem when using email to register into a different site. Services without email validation will happily accept those two addresses separately, because they don't adhere to Gmail's internal conventions. If the site then sends mail to its registered accounts, then the Gmail address will receive unwanted mail.

Why would you register with an e-mail address that's not yours in the first place?

There are horrible people who loves the idea of being able to use someone else's identities. Not just made up but stolen. I - I don't want to know why, nor what they're normally thinking.

Re: *@gmail.com

#135

Post by Bluecobra »

InsomniacL wrote: post #105
ethbr1 wrote: post #100

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It does lead to people sending mail to the wrong address, from personal experience since Gmail was in beta. I've gotten sensitive emails and account signups with different dots for years. But the cause of that appears to be user error -- people thinking they own email addresses that are not actually theirs.

> I've gotten sensitive emails and account signups with different dots for years. Please, please give an example.. Also, read this.. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en#zippy=%... > if your email is johnsmith@gmail.com, you own all dotted versions of your address > If anyone tries to create a Gmail account with a dotted version of your username, they'll get an error saying the username is already tak…

I’ve gotten emails from some other Gmail account, for example an Uber receipt. I found that by digging in the header that there was a “x-forwarded-to:” to me. My guess is that the original user accidentally configured a bad email forward.

Re: *@gmail.com

#136

Post by thesuperbigfrog »

_notreallyme_ wrote: post #128
mabbo wrote: post #49

"If everyone would just stop replying, this would end! Why are you all still hitting reply all?!" -latest reply all on every reply-all storm. In my early days at Amazon, around 2012-2015, this would happen frequently enough [0]. I pretty quickly learned the best thing to do was to ignore the conversation and never think about it again rather than try to 'help'. [0] - too many new products and orgs set up new mailing…

At amazon in 2010, someone sent an email to everyone on the "all" mailing list to ask if anyone had seen it. A reply-all storm ensued, and despite several people asking to stop hitting the reply-all button, it continued for several days. The management had to chime in and sometimes threatened people with punishment if they continued participating to the reply-all storm. If you ignored the conversation you may not hav…

>> If you ignored the conversation you may not have seen it, but most reply-all storm ended up with someone saying something the line of "we don't care about your wallet".

Not quite. It started with a meeting invite that was accidentally sent to everyone. The meeting was for the Amazon Wallet team (I think they did something with payments, etc.) for whatever work they were doing at the time.

Most people ignored the meeting invite and just deleted it, but someone hit "Reply All" and said something to the effect of "I know this meeting invite was not for me, but I wanted to make sure that whoever was supposed to get it did not miss the meeting."

From there, it turned into a "Reply All" storm with lots of people replying all with "Please do not reply all".

Others thought it was funny and sent memes. One guy was so bold to promote his indie rock band that was taking off.

The incident is famous and became known as "Wallet", but the name comes from the Amazon Wallet team.

Re: *@gmail.com

#138

Post by Taniwha »

Aaargh20318 wrote: post #83
Taniwha wrote: post #21

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Oh I wish that were true, I've been receiving email for years for someone who signed up to facebook with my email address. It's a horrible pain, you can't contact facebook without a facebook account, and I can't create one because someone already has one with my email address.

Do a password recovery, log in and simply delete the account. I had to do this once when someone signed up to FB with my email address. It actually was an eye opening experience as to how much data FB collects from everyone. Now keep in mind that: 1) I don't have a FB account myself 2) This person signed up with my email address (which is @gmail.com), but their name is completely different from mine 3) They didn't ev…

Well I sort of did, didn't want to delete the guy's stuff, so I made a dummy gmail account, switched it to that and deleted the gmail account after weeks of spam emails and trying to contact facebook I figured he could do some of the hard work to get his account back.

Of course it backfired, after he stopped using his account facebook and a couple of weeks facebook started sending begging emails to my email account again (don't believe them when they say they delete anything), I still get the occasional "what you've missed on FB" emails and about once a year the guy tries to recover his account and I get an email, I'd drop him a note, but the only email address I have for him is mine

Re: *@gmail.com

#139

Post by Taniwha »

InsomniacL wrote: post #44
Taniwha wrote: post #21

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Oh I wish that were true, I've been receiving email for years for someone who signed up to facebook with my email address. It's a horrible pain, you can't contact facebook without a facebook account, and I can't create one because someone already has one with my email address.

Recover the account if you own the email address?

(see my reply above)

Re: *@gmail.com

#140

Post by xigoi »

numpad0 wrote: post #134
xigoi wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you register with an e-mail address that's not yours in the first place?

There are horrible people who loves the idea of being able to use someone else's identities. Not just made up but stolen. I - I don't want to know why, nor what they're normally thinking.

How would dot sensitivity prevent that?
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