GMail does not permit the other account to be created, and treats all variants, with or without periods, as the one same account.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:53 AM, casey stephenson < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes! This is happening to me also! I have a period separating my first and > last name and there are emails I am receiving that are addressed to my name > with no period separation also. I just came into a VERY sticky situation > regarding my tax return for 2014. My Turbo Tax account was linked to > another user because of this issue. > > > How do we stop this?? > > Casey > > On Sunday, May 11, 2014 at 7:37:50 PM UTC-5, Bruce Ferjulian 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.
