Thanks! Hard to believe they would let this go. The email I receive that is intended for someone else is not something I would want others to see if I were them.
Are you sure you read that second link? This is not a bug.
Click on "Your address is similar but has more or fewer dots (.) or different capitalization." to expand the explanation.
We had to add a link to this support document to the [email protected] autoresponder because people misunderstand this behaviour so often (They think they're getting someone elses mail, but someone just sent it to the wrong address).
Not true. I have a "[email protected]" account that is quite old and in the past year someone created the same account without the dot ([email protected]), or at least started using it in the past year. I get email from one of their senders, or a copy I presume, to this day!
Perhaps the emails you received were misaddressed. I'm fairly certain that you were never able to create similar emails which differed only by periods.
I indicated that in the post. However any existing account combination like this will route mail to both accounts presumably. I can certainly say that email intended for an account without the '.' will route to the account with the '.'
After the edit, point 2 and point 3 are directly contradictory.
Once someone has created j.smith@gmail, jsmith@gmail can no longer be created -- because they are the same account. It's not possible for you to have j.smith@gmail and someone else to have jsmith@gmail.
I get other peoples' mail all the time. It's not because gmail is misdelivering mail with dots in account names. It's because someone has another letter in their account that somebody left out (jjsmith, jpsmith, jsmith1, etc.) It's the sender, not gmail, who is directing the mail to the wrong inbox.
No, the list of instructions at the start of the post indicates that you can create an account like [email protected] even if there is already an account like [email protected].
If that is not what you mean, you should edit it to make it clearer.
Started out on the TI99-4A, yes Texas Instruments made computers back in the early 80s. Learned Basic and then Extended Basic. TV for a monitor, cassette deck for data storage. First program was probably something like:
