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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
Current thread:
- GMail contact - misroute / security issue Grant Taylor (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Royce Williams (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Mike Lyon (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 29)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Mike Lyon (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue ryanL (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Karl Auer (Sep 28)
- Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Grant Taylor (Sep 28)
- Re: Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue John Fraizer (Sep 28)
- Re: Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Bacon Zombie (Sep 29)
- Re: Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Jay Ashworth (Sep 29)
- Re: Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue John Fraizer (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue John Levine (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Nicolai (Sep 29)
(Thread continues...)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Royce Williams (Sep 28)