GMail contact - misroute / security issue
Royce Williams
royce at techsolvency.com
Mon Sep 29 03:50:08 UTC 2014
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net>
wrote:
> My wife is receiving someone else's emails.
>
> Specifically she is receiving emails for <first name><middle initial><last
> name>@gmail.com (no dots) when her email address is really <same first
> name>.<same middle initial>.<same last name>@gmail.com (dots).
If someone else thinks that the non-dotted email address is theirs, they
are mistaken.
This is a Gmail feature. Adding or removing dots makes no difference,
other than changing readability.
All versions of the email address are your wife's.
Royce
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