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Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue
From: Karl Auer <kauer () biplane com au>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:57:21 +1000
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 22:42 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote:
I'm looking for a GMail contact. 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).
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=addresses+with+dots+in+them Dots in GMail email addresses (before the at symbol of course) are syntactic sugar. "a.b.c () gmail com" is the same as "abc () gmail com". The sender in your wife's case just has the wrong email address for his/her desired recipient. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer () biplane com au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: EC67 61E2 C2F6 EB55 884B E129 072B 0AF0 72AA 9882 Old fingerprint: B862 FB15 FE96 4961 BC62 1A40 6239 1208 9865 5F9A
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