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Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue


From: Royce Williams <royce () techsolvency com>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:50:08 -0800

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Grant Taylor <gtaylor () 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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