True, all the email address should be for different people. But Google just chooses to handle them like one. I guess it must be easier for them. However, Google Apps accounts to take into account the dot.


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
True, and that is my problem since in my experience with mail rfc's -
all the 4 examples you have given are actually 4 different addresses
and possibly 4 different persons. I once had a course in exim at
Cambridge University and they gave exmples of how vast their mail
systems and an example given was two different persons, say:

Joe Don - email joe.don@xxx.com
Jo Edon - email jo.edon@xxx.com

And according to Google, all these are the same person! NOT RIGHT
according to RFC's!

./Ok3ch

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
> Hi Okech,
>
> What GMail are saying is that both address (with and without the dot) are
> mapped to your account. You can sign in to your account using any of the
> following:
> signmein@gmail.com
> sign.me.in@gmail.com
> signme.in@gmail.com
> sign.mein@gmail.com
> All above point to signmein@gmail.com
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I have just received an email meant for someone else only difference
>> between my address is a dot (.) character and Google insists its my
>> address, and upon further check, I come across this articled -
>> https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=10313#
>> Google expressedly says they do not recognize the dot (.) character in
>> any email address - Isn't this trying to re-write the rules that
>> govern mail transmissions as covered in the RFC's, which specifically
>> allows the dot (.) as a legitimate character?
>>
>> ./Ok3ch
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