What a brilliant suggestion, Zach! Thank you. Just sent said e-mail and it bounced with "The email account that you tried to reach does not exist." Now, how do I get that account without Google telling me it already exists?
Alvin On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 2:45:45 PM UTC-5, Zack Tennant wrote: > > Have you tried sending a message to it? If it truly doesn't exist, there > will be a bounce, and then you'll know that GMail is just preventing that > username because they don't like a word in it. If it doesn't bounce, it's > possible someone has the account, just has a period in a place you don't > consider logical. > > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Alvin <[email protected] <javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Thanx, Zach. >> >> >> > Logging in the periods aren't significant, but password recovery they >> are. >> >> A little inconsistent, but I guess even Google isn't perfect. :-/ >> >> I'm trying to get/recover a Google account with my business name, and >> there is a logical place for a period, which I didn't try. I did now with >> the same results. Now what? >> >> >> On Monday, July 8, 2013 3:54:52 PM UTC-5, Zack Tennant wrote: >> >>> If your proposed username has a reserved word in it, like admin, or >>> root, I believe you'd get the same results. Alternatively, if the account >>> exists, but with periods in different locations, you;d get that type of >>> result. Logging in the periods aren't significant, but password recovery >>> they are. >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Alvin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, I want another Google Account. I go the the "Create Account" >>>> page, enter the name I want, and it tells me the account already exists. >>>> Okay, I could have forgotten this. So I click the "Cannot login link," >>>> select the "I don't know my password" radio button, enter the above Google >>>> Account, and I get "No such account exists" message. Now what? Thank you >>>> for any help. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Gmail-Users" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to gmail-users...@**googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> >>>> Visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/**group/gmail-users<http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >>>> . >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
