fitrans.blogspot.com — If you registered a Gmail account in some of the first waves of invitations, a small bug may have let more than one person create variants of email addresses (john.doe vs. johndoe) that the system considers to be the same, thus you both get each other's mail - as has happened to the author.
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bnobleJan 20, 2006
Happened to me. I'm not your mom.
silentbobscJan 20, 2006
lol, guess who didn't practice what he preaches and read all the comments before putting his own $0.02 in.... lmao...
njankJan 20, 2006
wow.... people here can't seem to follow a discussion at all.it's a feature if you're a "newer" user. email address with or without periods go to the same place, and only one can be registered (they're essentially all the same). if you're an "older" user who registered before that policy was implemented, apparently (as supported by the blogger and some commenters here) it WAS possible to register both an email and a period-variant of the email. Google treated them as distinct accounts, but apparently erroneously applies the same forwarding rules as it does for the newer accounts. Thus, it may be possible for a similar account to get another account's email, but it won't happen for most of us, and needs to be corrected by Google for those it does affect.
asherwJan 20, 2006
Has anyone actually read the webpage lately?<a class="user" href="http://fitrans.blogspot.com/">http://fitrans.blogspot.com/</a>"I guess I "dug" myself a deep hole now. From what I can gather the only way to fill it in is to report the link as bad/lame - if visiting dig's could also do that it would be great - no point in pushing this any further than it has already gone.Original post below - I'll admit I'm wrong, not hide it. I'll leave the comments open for a bit."
wolfgerJan 20, 2006
No, really... that's not spam, it's just legitimate e-mail meant for somebody else!
attackinghoboAug 24, 2007
I get email that is sent to myname@gmail.com, when I only own my.name@gmail.com. The emails are definitively not meant for me.
ebundanceAug 10, 2008
Here is what Gmail is doing today to handle the multiple periods. I sent 6 emails to various versions of my address. I clicked on "Yes, this is you" and I posted their help file message below.from Nathon Hay to nathonhay@gmail.com (Yes, this is you.) Learn more, n.athonhay@gmail.com (Yes, this is you.) Learn more, na.thonhay@gmail.com (Yes, this is you.) Learn more, nathonhay.@gmail.com (Yes, this is you.) Learn more, .nathonhay@gmail.com (Yes, this is you.) Learn more, nathon...hay@gmail.com (Yes, this is you.) Learn moredate Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:00 PMsubject 6 emailsmailed-by gmail.comReceiving someone else's mailThere are three common reasons why Gmail users think they're receiving someone else's mail. Please select the description that matches your situation below.Your address is similar but has more or fewer dots (.) or different capitalization.Sometimes you may receive a message intended for someone whose address resembles yours but has a different number or placement of dots. For example, your address might be homerjsimpson@gmail.com, but the message was sent to a Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com. What's going on?Gmail allows only one registration for any given username. Once you sign up for a particular username, any dot or capitalization variations are made permanently unavailable for new registration. If you created yourusername@gmail.com, no one can ever register your.username@gmail.com, or Your.user.name@gmail.com. Furthermore, because Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within usernames, adding or removing dots from a Gmail address won't change the actual destination address. Messages sent to yourusername@gmail.com, your.username@gmail.com, and y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com are all delivered to your inbox, and only yours.If you're homerjsimpson@gmail.com, no one owns Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com, except for you. Sending mail to Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com is the same as sending mail to homerjsimpson@gmail.com, or even HOMERJSIMPSON@GMAIL.COM. If you're getting mail addressed to Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com, most likely someone was trying to send a message to Homer.J.Sampson@gmail.com, or Homer.J.Simpson1@gmail.com, and made a mistake. You might even get messages from mailing lists or website registrations because the intended recipient accidentally provided the wrong email address. In these cases, we suggest contacting the original sender or website when possible to alert them to the mistake.For security reasons, when you log in to Gmail, you must enter any dots that were originally defined as part of your username.Note: Google Apps recognizes dots. If you'd like to receive mail with a dot in your username, please ask your domain administrator to add the desired username as a nickname.