On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:23 AM, <ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info> wrote:

They arent violating the RFC :

""
Character . (dot, period, full stop) provided that it is not the first
or last character, and provided also that it does not appear two or
more times consecutively (e.g. John..Doe@example.com).
""

They are merely mapping every instance of the address with a dot in
between to the first subcriber :

subscriber : john.doe@example.com

all other valid email addresses with dots in between the same
alphabetical combination are mapped to john.doe@example.com (e.g.
j.ohndoe@example.com, j.o.h.ndoe@example.com )

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
> @Brian, just tested and it does take into account the dot which is a
> plus, and still advances my theory, breaking RFC's on free service
> does not add up! Maybe am having this discussion with the wrong crowd
> since my aim is to show non-compliance to RFC's and your aim is to get
> mail delivered (hacker vs. user?). What most admins do is that when
> you break RFC's, your mail to the system if it needs to be helped will
> be dev nulled and no questions asked, thats why its good practice to
> follow the RFC's. Just like most have pointed earlier, the admin will
> be in trouble with his users since all the users care about is mail
> being delivered.
>
> ./Ok3ch
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
>> @Okech
>> As I had said earlier, Google apps DOES take into account the dots
>> (presumably for this very reason). It is only the GMail accounts that ignore
>> the dots.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> @Dennis - when you do several iterations with email, then you will
>>> know why this is not good for the life of email itself.
>>>
>>> Say for example, am a mail admin for xyz.com & would like to sign up
>>> for paid backup services from Google on the same, and internally, I
>>> have these addresses which I would like to do some address rewriting
>>> to xyz.com which is paid hosted by google, what do I do? -
>>>
>>> This is just 1 example, and in my every life with email (last 10 years
>>> or so) I encounter these scenarios day in day out, and while at one
>>> iteration, I stumbled on this. The fact that I can chose another
>>> provider is not out of question, but knowing that someone is breaking
>>> email is not so nice!
>>>
>>> ./Ok3ch
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Now this is the point where techies miss the point. See, Gmail is a
>>> > popular
>>> > email system, and they serve masses who have no idea about the
>>> > differences
>>> > between jo.edoe@gmail.com , joe.doe@gmail.com and joedoe@gmail.com. The
>>> > confusion arising from the use of the three would be far more complex to
>>> > handle than the techies angered by the lack of use of the standard.
>>> > In a company, it can be honoured, for a global provider , it
>>> > is better to
>>> > disregard it.
>>> >
>>> > Also most firms hose to ignore the use of a + in email addresses while
>>> > Google honours it .
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>>
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