Oh brother . I guess a mail server can do whatever it wants regarding matching addresses to mailboxes for delivery and no RFC cares?
Thanks for clearing up the mystery. Carl From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Google Username Assistance - huh? Hi Carl, I believe that gmail ignores periods in the left hand side of the address, so in fact those two email addresses are the same account, i.e. not forwarding. You could equally say the same about [email protected], [email protected], you get the idea. They also ignore anything after a plus symbol [ "+" ], therefore [email protected] <mailto:c.h.o.u.s.e.m.a.n%[email protected]> equally goes the same way. Feel free to try the above and see if it works. I hope this helps. Andrew On 11 February 2010 06:25, Carl Houseman <[email protected]> wrote: OK, this seems very weird to me. For some time, mail addressed to [email protected] has been delivered to my [email protected] mailbox. I thought, at some point, I created the chouseman mailbox and configured forwarding. But I couldn't sign in to Google with the chouseman address and no attempts to use their automatic password reset worked. About 3 months ago I went the distance trying to reset the password, using the last resort method several times. Each time I received an automatic message telling me I should be able to access the account, but of course, I never could. And then today this comes in: ---------------------------- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Google Username Assistance We searched our database but we were unable to find any usernames associated with your email address [email protected]. <snipped instructions for accessing my account, which apparently doesn't exist> ---------------------------- So the takeaway from that message is what, exactly? There's no username, therefore there is no account associated with [email protected]? And nonetheless, I have to keep receiving e-mail for that address? I don't see where a Google account can have multiple e-mail addresses tied to it as Exchange can, but apparently that's what has happened? It's crap like this that will keep me from ever recommending cloud services from Google. Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- Kind regards, Andrew Levicki MCITP MCSE CCNA [email protected] www.andrewlevicki.eu ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
