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**GMAIL Email Address Question**

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ucGrad

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Hi All,
The topic summary sums it up. I just sent an email from my first.last@gmail.com to firstlast@gmail.com and it didn't come back to me. I'm worried now that emails going that are supposed to go to me are gonna end up in someone elses box! Are they really two different accounts?!?

Thanks!

edit: ** and before you start saying locked/ban/repost... my post isn't about begging for a gmail account like that stickied one is **
 
Unless they've got some type of aliasing setting turned on, yes, they'd be seperate accounts.

Edit: Hopefully you don't have a common name and no one takes it. If it's still open when they go live, go register the other version of it.
 
Originally posted by: ucGrad
Hi All,
The topic summary sums it up. I just sent an email from my first.last@gmail.com to firstlast@gmail.com and it didn't come back to me. I'm worried now that emails going that are supposed to go to me are gonna end up in someone elses box! Are they really two different accounts?!?

Thanks!
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I'm pretty sure they are two different accounts
 
Originally posted by: DaWhim
LOCKED.........do you see the sticky? :|
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Locked?? I'm not begging for an account. and i'm pretty sure people aren't gonna read thru those hundred/thousdand+ posts to find my question and answer it...
 
Originally posted by: notfred
Why the heck would anyone think that "x.y" and "xy" were the same username?
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yeah.. stupid assumption on my part. I thought the '.' was simply ignored and just used as a separator. :frown:
 
Originally posted by: ucGrad
Originally posted by: Judgement
Originally posted by: DaWhim
LOCKED.........do you see the sticky? :|
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Why do people get so upset? Its obvious he is new. Sorry he ruined you're day :roll:
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Thanks, its nice to know most people on here are nice :beer:
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Oh believe me, I'm an asshole. I have problems with people acting like assholes to those they see as inferior, not to mention I don't handle stupidity well either. Just don't give the intelligent members of the forum reason to get upset and you'll be fine. No one gets upset over this kinda sh!t besides the ones who have too much time on their hands/internet thugs.
 
Originally posted by: Xiety
Originally posted by: Judgement
Originally posted by: DaWhim
LOCKED.........do you see the sticky? :|
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Why do people get so upset? Its obvious he is new. Sorry he ruined you're day :roll:
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what do you expect from someone with Xanga?
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Good point, I should probably be expecting even less to be honest.



EDIT: drunken grammar errors
 
Well, I just tried it with my account, first.last@gmail.com does indeed send mail to firstlast@gmail.com. My address is firstlast@gmail.com format, and first.last@gmail.com and f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t@gmail.com also directs to firstlast@gmail.com. My guess is that Google simply strips out the periods from usernames/email addresses.

Someone who created an account with a period in it can give some more details on what their email address looks like in their profile, but it seems periods don't matter when sending email to a gmail user.

And what's with the spaz response? It's a reasonable question not related to the stickied topic. Sheesh, you're going to scare away all the new folks.

Edit: If Google really allows someone to create first.last@gmail.com when firstlast@gmail.com already exists, the person with the period in their username will have a worthless account as far as I can tell. Unless of course the redirect only works when the username with the period doesn't actually exist on the system...I think we need to conduct some tests here.
 
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Well, I just tried it with my account, first.last@gmail.com does indeed send mail to firstlast@gmail.com. My address is firstlast@gmail.com format, and first.last@gmail.com and f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t@gmail.com also directs to firstlast@gmail.com. My guess is that Google simply strips out the periods from usernames/email addresses.

Someone who created an account with a period in it can give some more details on what their email address looks like in their profile, but it seems periods don't matter when sending email to a gmail user.

And what's with the spaz response? It's a reasonable question not related to the stickied topic. Sheesh, you're going to scare away all the new folks.
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You just destroyed the entire argument being made so far this thread. Congrats 😛


I'd test it myself but I only have 1 account, it doesnt have a "." in it and I've given away all my invites.
 
Originally posted by: Judgement
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Well, I just tried it with my account, first.last@gmail.com does indeed send mail to firstlast@gmail.com. My address is firstlast@gmail.com format, and first.last@gmail.com and f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t@gmail.com also directs to firstlast@gmail.com. My guess is that Google simply strips out the periods from usernames/email addresses.

Someone who created an account with a period in it can give some more details on what their email address looks like in their profile, but it seems periods don't matter when sending email to a gmail user.

And what's with the spaz response? It's a reasonable question not related to the stickied topic. Sheesh, you're going to scare away all the new folks.
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You just destroyed the entire argument being made so far this thread. Congrats 😛


I'd test it myself but I only have 1 account, it doesnt have a "." in it and I've given away all my invites.
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there is nothing to test....

first.last = firstlast
f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t = firstlast

and any other configuration you can think of
 
Originally posted by: Judgement
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Well, I just tried it with my account, first.last@gmail.com does indeed send mail to firstlast@gmail.com. My address is firstlast@gmail.com format, and first.last@gmail.com and f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t@gmail.com also directs to firstlast@gmail.com. My guess is that Google simply strips out the periods from usernames/email addresses.

Someone who created an account with a period in it can give some more details on what their email address looks like in their profile, but it seems periods don't matter when sending email to a gmail user.

And what's with the spaz response? It's a reasonable question not related to the stickied topic. Sheesh, you're going to scare away all the new folks.
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You just destroyed the entire argument being made so far this thread. Congrats 😛


I'd test it myself but I only have 1 account, it doesnt have a "." in it and I've given away all my invites.
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Thanks 😉

You can test what I did out if you really want to...just send email to your username with a period (or several) added some place in the username. That's all I did, and all the emails ended up in my regular box (the account without the period in it).
 
Originally posted by: CheapArse
Originally posted by: Judgement
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Well, I just tried it with my account, first.last@gmail.com does indeed send mail to firstlast@gmail.com. My address is firstlast@gmail.com format, and first.last@gmail.com and f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t@gmail.com also directs to firstlast@gmail.com. My guess is that Google simply strips out the periods from usernames/email addresses.

Someone who created an account with a period in it can give some more details on what their email address looks like in their profile, but it seems periods don't matter when sending email to a gmail user.

And what's with the spaz response? It's a reasonable question not related to the stickied topic. Sheesh, you're going to scare away all the new folks.
Click to expand...

You just destroyed the entire argument being made so far this thread. Congrats 😛


I'd test it myself but I only have 1 account, it doesnt have a "." in it and I've given away all my invites.
Click to expand...

there is nothing to test....

first.last = firstlast
f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t = firstlast

and any other configuration you can think of
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Ok, I'll assume this is confirmed unless anyone says otherwise because every other post has been by those making one too many assumptions.
 
Originally posted by: Judgement
Originally posted by: CheapArse
Originally posted by: Judgement
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Well, I just tried it with my account, first.last@gmail.com does indeed send mail to firstlast@gmail.com. My address is firstlast@gmail.com format, and first.last@gmail.com and f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t@gmail.com also directs to firstlast@gmail.com. My guess is that Google simply strips out the periods from usernames/email addresses.

Someone who created an account with a period in it can give some more details on what their email address looks like in their profile, but it seems periods don't matter when sending email to a gmail user.

And what's with the spaz response? It's a reasonable question not related to the stickied topic. Sheesh, you're going to scare away all the new folks.
Click to expand...

You just destroyed the entire argument being made so far this thread. Congrats 😛


I'd test it myself but I only have 1 account, it doesnt have a "." in it and I've given away all my invites.
Click to expand...

there is nothing to test....

first.last = firstlast
f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t = firstlast

and any other configuration you can think of
Click to expand...

Ok, I'll assume this is confirmed unless anyone says otherwise because every other post has been by those making one too many assumptions.
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I should clarify...if you signed up under first.last you cannot log into gmail using firstlast...you must put in the period when you login.
 
Originally posted by: Judgement
Originally posted by: CheapArse
Originally posted by: Judgement
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Well, I just tried it with my account, first.last@gmail.com does indeed send mail to firstlast@gmail.com. My address is firstlast@gmail.com format, and first.last@gmail.com and f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t@gmail.com also directs to firstlast@gmail.com. My guess is that Google simply strips out the periods from usernames/email addresses.

Someone who created an account with a period in it can give some more details on what their email address looks like in their profile, but it seems periods don't matter when sending email to a gmail user.

And what's with the spaz response? It's a reasonable question not related to the stickied topic. Sheesh, you're going to scare away all the new folks.
Click to expand...

You just destroyed the entire argument being made so far this thread. Congrats 😛


I'd test it myself but I only have 1 account, it doesnt have a "." in it and I've given away all my invites.
Click to expand...

there is nothing to test....

first.last = firstlast
f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t = firstlast

and any other configuration you can think of
Click to expand...

Ok, I'll assume this is confirmed unless anyone says otherwise because every other post has been by those making one too many assumptions.
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Thanks everyone. I wonder why it didn't work for me though, I sent to my address w/o a period in it over an hour ago and didn't get it back... heh.. could it be i spelled my name wrong??
😱
 
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