[ncolug] Re: Gmail oddity?

  • From: Mike <bellyacres@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 19:31:37 -0500

On 02/09/2016 07:11 PM, Chuck wrote:

On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 18:24 -0500, Mike wrote:
On 02/09/2016 05:59 PM, Larry DiGioia wrote:
So does "bellyacres" by itself.

On 02/09/2016 05:48 PM, Mike wrote:
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Subject:        Test1
Date:   Tue, 9 Feb 2016 22:25:16 +0000 (UTC)
From: Mike Bell <bellyacres96@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:bellyacres96@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Mike Bell <bellyacres96@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:bellyacres96@xxxxxxxxx>
To: belly.acres@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:belly.acres@xxxxxxxxx> <belly.acres@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:belly.acres@xxxxxxxxx>



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So bellyacres@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:bellyacres@xxxxxxxxx> = belly.acres@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:belly.acres@xxxxxxxxx>

Apparently so! I am able to log into the web interface the same way. Either works actually...

Color me confused.

Mike


Ahhh right. That is my account "bellyacres@xxxxxxxxx" <mailto:bellyacres@xxxxxxxxx>, to the best of my recollection belly.acres@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:belly.acres@xxxxxxxxx> does not equal bellyacres@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:bellyacres@xxxxxxxxx>. A period *is* still significant in an email address, yes?

Mike

I hope Rob chimes in. Because I seem to remember him telling me periods on the left side of the @ on gmail accounts do not matter.

I just performed a test by sending a message to one of my GMail accounts and my TWC account I used a period in my TWC account where one does not exist and it still got delivered. Both GMail messages also arrived, one with and one without a period in the same address.

Chuck

Okay, maybe I need to get out more! :)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/01/dots_in_gmail_addresses_what_happens_if_you_leave_out_the_period.html

Should have just googled it to begin with, some how I had it in my head that it wasn't provider specific. A really old RFC maybe? Just odd that I had an email come today and noticed the dot.

Mike

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