I'm getting someone's email.

[jcb...@gmail.com]

I've been getting someone else's email, are they getting mine?.. It's
the age old question of name...@gmail.com vs namename.com - With and
without "."

I have a "." but the other use does not, I occasionally get mail that
is intended for them. I know this because in the header it DOES say
"Names Names <name...@gmail.com>(Yes, this is you. Learn more)" -
there is no "."! I'm logged in as name.name - at the top of my gmail
page, where it says who I'm logged in as says MY address WITH "."...

I know that gmail doesn't let you create accounts with (or is it
without?) the "." in the name. But I set this up ages ago. Is gmail
randomly picking which account gets which?

What can I do about this?

[Zack (Doc)]

You're not. You're getting your mail. GMail ignores dots in names,
so namename is the same as name.name and n.a.m.e.n.a.m.e. Here's the
FAQ about it <https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10313&topic=1564>.

[jcb...@gmail.com]

That's what I thought, too. So all these other messages that are to
the account without the . are just mis-addressed? There are enough
there that aren't spam like that makes me think something is wrong.
Things like rental agreements w/ attachments that need signed, that
kind of stuff.

Didn't Gmail originally let you make those accounts? with . and w/o?

[Zack (Doc)]

It should still let you create those accounts, with "."s AFAIK. I've
not heard it not letting you. And AFAIK it never let you make the
same account with and w/o "."s... it declared the name already in use.

Some people and some systems may be simply mis-addressing them. Some
people's web scripts incorrectly drop "."s from beginning e-mail
addresses, and people simply forget.

On 6/21/06, jcb...@gmail.com <jcb...@gmail.com> wrote:
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