Something could have gone wrong with how GMAIL treats account names. This is the story.
I just received a help from a family member that the email contact setting had been changed, this person uses their GMAIL account for Apple iTunes. When I created the account for them I used ( [email protected] ). The Apple email was addressed to someone else but the email address that Apple said was in question was ( [email protected] ), the first thing I noticed was there was no period between the first and last name. This looked suspicious. After resetting the Apple iTunes account with a new password I checked the email address listed and there was only one, it was the email account with a period between the first and last name. Whew, things looked better, they probably were not hacked. Since I created the account and also setup the IMAP mail for this family member there should've been a second GMAIL account. I sent an email from the account in question with a period between the first name and last name expecting the email to begin generating undeliverable reports from GMAIL, instead the same account used to send the email, received the same message. I then tried my personal account which again separated the first and last name with a period and sent an email to myself to what I belived to be a nonexistent account with no period between the first and last name. Again, when I sync, the email came back to me. So a couple of questions. 1. Does GMAIL create a duplicate email account for every user with any special characters stripped out? 2. Why would Apple be in the know that an alias GMAIL account existed? If your GMAIL address is formatted like mine with a period separating your first and last name, report back here if you too have an alias email address if you try sending to yourself to a GMAIL username without the period separating your name. This is the RAW data from the email that looped back to myself. Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from [192.168.1.73] (user-0c2ihch.cable.earthlink.net. [24.41.69.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id c90sm8851544qgd.3.2014.05.11.17.16.22 for <[email protected]> (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 11 May 2014 17:16:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 20:16:20 -0400 Subject: Test Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: Bruce Ferjulian <*bruce.ferjulian*@gmail.com> To: "*Bruceferjulian*@gmail.com" <[email protected]> Reply-To: Bruce Ferjulian <[email protected]> -- 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/d/optout.
