Mastodawn

Someone has an almost identical Gmail address as mine, but without the dot between first name and surname. However, Google doesn't care about the dot and I get most of their emails. I just cancelled a golfing holiday to Scotland for them. I can't stand golf.

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Robin Neal Mar 2

@fesshole Gmail hasn't acknowledged dots as meaningful characters in my memory. I've always used arbitray `.` within an email to sign up for services multiple times without making new emails.

I doubt it's just due to the missing period.

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Gavin

@SudoCat @fesshole yeah, I don't believe this is possible because Gmail has always "normalised" addresses to the no-dot format (and even has help articles explaining such). Same with @gmail and @googlemail I think, from when it turned out Gmail was trademarked already.

I also have someone who does this who drives a Kia from Bill Byrd in Florida. But it's only with that company so I think they've just either given the wrong address or the Kia dealers wrote it wrong. Not Google's fault.