Thanks Bill Good to know they deliver to both. As I said above, I tried all the permutations, and nothing works differently. There must be a knot in the Google string that's making the username stick. Will try to get someone in support to untie it.
At present I solve the problem by reversing her names. ioris.rosana, but although it works, it's not a solution I find pleasing. And I can sign in as ioris.rosana or iorisrosana, without the dot. As well as receive email with or without the dot. But just tried reporting the issue to support, but there is no option for: "My username account no longer exists but I can't create a new one using that username, because you say it exists". There is only the option to search Help, which has NOTHING which covers this. Understandably, as it sounds like a bug of some type. If anyone knows how to report this, I'd be grateful. And thanks again for all your help, Jon (on behalf of my wife, Rosana) Happy New Year! 2013! On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:32:12 UTC-3, Bill wrote: > > Hi, > > Bryon and Fanis are correct, when you create an account with a dot in it, > you have to log in with the dot, omitting the dot doesn't work, at least > that is my experience. :) This is true even tho mail is delivered to both > the dotted and undotted addies. > > Peace, > Bill > > > On 1/10/06, Bryon Sommers <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> Wait, did you actually try the "dot" mentioned above? For example, you >> may have logged in using [email protected] <javascript:>, but registered >> as [email protected] <javascript:>. Its a long shot, but in Google's >> world yourname = your.name. >> >> >> On 1/9/06, D Knight <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> [email protected] <javascript:>wrote: >>> > I think I partially set up an account sometime ago, but now can't >>> > access it, and Google thinks it doesn't exist, yet I can't set it up as >>> > a username, because Google says it exists already! I'm in catch-22 >>> > hell. Can anyone help me please? In desperation I created a new account >>> > which reverses my firstname lastname. Google doesn't recognise any of >>> > my other (hotmail and yahoo) email accounts, nor rosanaioris as a >>> > username, yet when I try to choose rosanaioris, it says it already >>> > exists. None of my commonly used passwords work. Help! >>> >>> >>> This is mainly speculation... but I don't believe Google immediately >>> recycles account usernames. So, if the account previously exists but >>> is now closed it doesn't necessary allow it to be used for new >>> accounts. They may keep the username reserved for a period of time. >>> >>> >> > > > -- > GMail FAQ: > http://4or.us/gmailfaq.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
