Gmail madness

[The Duke]

2 strange things just happened. I got an email from bistudio to activate my account. By its name I thigh if porn spam at first, but investigated and found it a gaming site. So then though it was probably my lad that signed up but put my email, we have very similar emails.

However on inspection of the email it was sent to it wasn’t my email.

Lest say my email is 11.theduke@gmail the email address was actually 11theduke@gmail the dot is missing, but it still goes though.

So I done some testing and I can send (or have sent) mail to either the one with the dot, or with out the dot, and they both arrive to the same inbox.

How is this possible?

[JayCeeDee]

Is it the same sort of thing as @gmail.com and @googlemail.com?? I started out on googlemail.com because at the time gmail.com wasn’t available in the UK ( or Germany, Poland or Russian Fed.)

Every Gmail User has two Gmail Addresses
Surprised?? When a user creates a new Gmail.com account, he actually gets two email addresses. The first one is the regular @gmail.com id while the second one is @googlemail.com id. It is because the domains gmail.com and Googlemail.com are interchangeable.

Both Gmail.com and Googlemail.com point to the same mailbox for a given username. So if you have default address – geek@gmail.com all the mails messages addressed to geek@googlemail.com will also be delivered to the same inbox.

This also means that usernames registered through either of the domains can’t be duplicated.

 

Could it be similar? You get the added dot address as well??

[blacklion1725]

Gmail has always been like that – doesn’t care about the dot – if you use it for logins then those sites care, but the mail application has never cared whether the dot was there or not. Can’t decide if that is good or bad but sure it has always been so.

[The Duke]

Very strange indeed. So now not only do I have the Googlemail/Gmail, but I have 00. And just 00.

So I get 4 for the price e of one.lol

The Gmail thing I always understood, I’m sure In the early days of Gmail you had to use googlemail.com, then about two years in they let you use either.

The dot thing is a new one on me! Also my lad just came in and he never signed up for the gaming site, so it was probably some one with a very close email addy to me, and miss typed, it happens quite often.

 

[Drezha]

Isn’t the dot thing an alias? Or is that the + sign? It allowed you to sign up to individual websites with a specific email address and then you’d be able to find the ones that either sold your email address or had been hacked.

When I was with Fastmail, it was included and that was websitename@name.email.address rather than name@email.address.

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

[Ed P]

Used to be a family thing e.g. dad.address@gmail, mum.address@gmail.com, sis.address@gmail.com. In those days each was an individual address. Having read the thread I’m not sure it still works in the same way.

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