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Gmail Mis.delivered?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the new-excuses-for-not-getting-an-email dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google doesn't make many mistakes but when it does, boy, are they doozies! The latest is that Gmail doesn't care about periods in usernames. So mail sent to anonymous.coward@gmail.com is also delivered to anonymouscoward@gmail.com, even though these are two separate mail accounts. Google admits Gmail doesn't see periods, but no word on a fix yet." Update: As may users have pointed out Ars has since corrected the story, stating that the original submitter was mistaken and the email was just improperly addressed.

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  1. Re:This is not news and not rocket science by orkysoft · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Except not conforming to the W3C standards, having a crappy implementation of CSS, and presenting a huge security risk for millions of computers worldwide, well, nothing much, really.

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    I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
  2. Re:Sigh... This really is a FEATURE by Honig+the+Apothecary · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Question is, if an account named username@gmail.com already exists, can you create an account named user.name@gmail.com ?

    No you cannot. And vise versa. You cannot create an account someuser@gmail.com if someone already has some.user@gmail.com. It seems to retire all dot variations of a name when you register the nondotted basename. I personally registered a firstname.lastname@gmail.com account. When I send mail to firstnamelastname@gmail.com it comes to the registered account with the dot in it.

    This is a non-issue. Chicken.Little@gmail.com, the sky is not falling and some l33t hacker is not reading your mail because they own chickenlittle@gmail.com, you own chickenlittle@gmail.com, you jackass.