[174742] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auer)
Sun Sep 28 23:57:34 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:57:21 +1000
In-Reply-To: <5428D540.7080904@tnetconsulting.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 22:42 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote:
> I'm looking for a GMail contact.
> 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).
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=addresses+with+dots+in+them
Dots in GMail email addresses (before the at symbol of course) are
syntactic sugar. "a.b.c@gmail.com" is the same as "abc@gmail.com".
The sender in your wife's case just has the wrong email address for
his/her desired recipient.
Regards, K.
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