I have a GMail account. Sorry, Google Mail for those of us in the UK. Anyway, you can probably guess what it is: firstname.surname@gmail.com. Fill in the blanks. The problem is I'm getting someone else's mail. It turns out, according to this FAQ that Google Mail ignores full stops in email addresses - a clever way to create a number of email aliases. Well, it would be clever if GMail didn't allow people to sign up with both the non-stopped version and the stopped version of the email address. They say they don't and I'm hoping that someone's just guessed my email address incorrectly. Otherwise, big problem...
GMail: nasty bug or feature?
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Google Mail reassures me that someone's only been trying to guess an email address and failed to guess correctly. There aren't two accounts with only full stops as differences.... Read More
Ars Technica reports that GMail's full-stop/period system has bugs after all. You may recall I pointed this out ages ago, complained to Google about it, and was told that someone was merely guessing my email address and it was... Read More
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