[174740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Royce Williams)
Sun Sep 28 23:50:37 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5428D540.7080904@tnetconsulting.net>
From: Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:50:08 -0800
To: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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
