There was this nice talk recently about the history of email and the fun you can have with email addresses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGfahzt-4Q
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This happens to me all the time. There are two people, one in Massachusetts and one in Suffolk UK who have my same name and regularly put in FirstLast@gmail as opposed to the first.last@gmail that I use. The Massachusetts person does this because they forget that their gmail is the full version of “first” as opposed to the shorter version I use. The Brit is confusing gmail for hotmail. Yes really. Most people don’t c…
You own both FirstLast@gmail and first.last@gmail. Try send an email to both, and you should get both emails. They are likely making a typeo elsewhere in their email address which is causing the confusion. for example: Steve.foo@gmail.com stevenfoo@gmai.com Notice one is Steve and the other is Steven, the dot has nothing to do with it.
Please look at my example up thread. It’s the combination of mistakes amplified by the dots. The dots make it worse by far.
I just searched for my name with no dots in my gmail. Man. It’s a dumpster fire. I have to put up with hundreds and hundred of wrong mails monthly because this feature amplifies the mistakes so much. And it adds to spam because other people type the wrong mails into forms and gmail “fixes” it by ignoring the lack of dots. It’s honestly infuriating. We know we own all versions. We get it. That’s what causes extra work for us and makes us like the product less.
My experience would be significantly improved if I could have all the non canonical addresses bounce. I agree that I would also like nobody else to own one of the other dot versions but that’s also possible.
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To borrow an example from Internet domain names, consider: experts.exchang@gmail.com expert.sexchange@gmail.com Those addresses would be identical by Gmail's parsing conventions.
Actually, only one ends in 'e', therefore Gmail would treat them as distinct. It's spelling errors, not the dots, that are usually the source of misdirected emails (and also, wrong domains). Kind of ironic that you proved the opposite point of what you intended.
That is a tyop. The names were meant to be identical but for the dot position.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
This happens to me all the time. There are two people, one in Massachusetts and one in Suffolk UK who have my same name and regularly put in FirstLast@gmail as opposed to the first.last@gmail that I use. The Massachusetts person does this because they forget that their gmail is the full version of “first” as opposed to the shorter version I use. The Brit is confusing gmail for hotmail. Yes really. Most people don’t c…
You own both FirstLast@gmail and first.last@gmail. Try send an email to both, and you should get both emails. They are likely making a typeo elsewhere in their email address which is causing the confusion. for example: Steve.foo@gmail.com stevenfoo@gmai.com Notice one is Steve and the other is Steven, the dot has nothing to do with it.
I already said that, and it’s orthogonal to my point.
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> 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…
Because third party sites treat them as different - so everyone that signs up for Hulu with some combination of my email address but with dots, the confirmation goes to me. I have an early, small gmail name and am inundated with these kinds of emails and it is directly attributable to this.
How would they sign up with an address that they couldn't verify?
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The trouble is that Facebook doesn't know every email providers rules and which email addresses the email provider considers equivalent. So for Facebook, foo@gmail.com and f.o.o@gmail.com are two separate addresses (and indeed foo@hotmail.com and f.o.o@hotmail.com probably really are two separate addresses probably controlled by two different people). You're right that if Facebook required the email to be verified (b…
That's not true. I've just gone to facebook clicked register new account Entered Name, DOB, Email Now I'm stuck, can't proceed past "Enter the code from your email" and going to https://facebook.com in a new browser tab takes be back to the "enter code from email page". I doubt they will send any chaser emails but I will report back in some time
I just did the same thing with the opposite behavior, you’re probably coming from a bad internet neighborhood. Facebook does a lot of reputation stuff in their login and onboarding flows.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, only one ends in 'e', therefore Gmail would treat them as distinct. It's spelling errors, not the dots, that are usually the source of misdirected emails (and also, wrong domains). Kind of ironic that you proved the opposite point of what you intended.
That is a tyop. The names were meant to be identical but for the dot position. experts.exchange@gmail.com expert.sexchange@gmail.com
Yes, I know, that's the whole point. The mistakes that most people (including yourself) are attributing to the dots, are actually usually caused by human carelessness -- spelling errors, mixing up gmail with hotmail, "dave" instead of "david" etc.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
How would they verify without not emailing you?
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I don’t think this was always the case. I had two separate accounts around 2007ish. Separate passwords for each. . @gmail.com and @gmail.com.
That's pretty interesting, I just tried it with my aaaaaa@gmail (wrong letters) account. I sent email to aaaaa.a@gmail and to aaa.aaa@gmail and receive both.
I could be wrong. Its been at least 5 years since I used either of them. I wonder if I had a number or something on one of them.
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That is a tyop. The names were meant to be identical but for the dot position. experts.exchange@gmail.com expert.sexchange@gmail.com
Yes, I know, that's the whole point. The mistakes that most people (including yourself) are attributing to the dots, are actually usually caused by human carelessness -- spelling errors, mixing up gmail with hotmail, "dave" instead of "david" etc.
True.
I made (and corrected) three further typos writing my correction.
But the point remains that what I'd originally intended to show was that local-part email addresses which read differently, and in cases quite differently, but are identical save for the location of the dot, are treated identically by Gmail.
And that in different contexts this might not be clear and/or lead to confusion.