Not sure why "Apple" would be in the know, but ever since GMail came out 10 years ago, it's been the same... dots (and capitalization) don't matter in GMail.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Bruce Ferjulian <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
