On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:44, One Murithi <o0murithi@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 18:19, One Murithi <o0murithi@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
Now this makes some sense to me. I think Google strips off everything before the dot and uses the remaining part of the prefix.
I have always received e-mails addressed to *.odhiambo@gmail.com and always wondered.

Are you certain? I think they only strip off the . which I think is acceptable - it is factored in when checking for available names.

I have rcvd xyz.odhiambo@gmail.com which makes me think they strip all chars upto the first dot.

Try sending mail to anything.odhiambo@gmail.com and test this out. Perhaps I am wron

Tried with a different account - got a delivery failure.

I tried it myself and got a failure too. So I think the cases where I got the e-mails had the senders change the addresses from whatever they were to odhiambo@gmail.com... Doesn't look like a Google problem unless I am getting more confused.