Even when the correct address is different to mine?
I really don't understand this.
The emails are from FedEx with tracking information about a delivery of some engine oil to a home address in Suffolk - giving delivery time slots etc.
Recieving Emails addressed to someone else
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I really don't understand this.
The emails are from FedEx with tracking information about a delivery of some engine oil to a home address in Suffolk - giving delivery time slots etc.
Since Google does not allow dots when a username without dots exist. it is likely to be an error from the person ordering the stuff.
Dolorous Edd
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The emails claim to be from FedEx
When I originally tried to register my email address as namename it said that the address was already taken......so I put a dot in the middle and it accepted it.
From that, I would infer that the address I'm receiving emails for actually exists for someone else.
So, I still don't understand how I'm getting their emails.
From that, I would infer that the address I'm receiving emails for actually exists for someone else.
So, I still don't understand how I'm getting their emails.
Wow, that stumped me.
Pale Rider
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Not sure how that works.
My work email is myfirstname.mysecondname@...
Leaving out the dot results in an undelivered message, I know this because I've just tried it.
Alex321
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I think that you must have mistyped namename when you first tried to create it (possibly to the value of the guy the emails you are now receiving are actually intended for).
Google mail totally ignores any dots in the part before the @, both when creating the account and when directing emails to it.
So namename@gmail.com, name.name@gmail.com, n.a.m.e.n.a.m.e@gmail.com will all be seen by the google email servers as being namename@gmail.com, and all will be directed to the same account.
If they are not SPAM, then the person who ordered that engine oil has mistyped their email address when ordering, and has got your address but with a dot in a different place.
Alex321
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It depends on how your server is set up.
Some email servers will treat addresses with different dots as different.
Most commercial email services (including gmail) don't.
Chris S
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I just tried the same thing with my gmail address. Both emails were returned to me by the gmail server with a message saying,
"550 5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or unnecessary spaces."
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
My employers use Gmail, albeit the end of our addresses is the company name and '.co.uk'.
That's the address I just tested, so it is definitely dot sensitive for my first and last name.
Dolorous Edd
Senior Member
This is why Dot Cotton off EastEnders still uses Yahoo
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Delete delete delete. Any person or company I don't know or have never dealt with in the past...Delete.
Alex321
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I just tested it with my own gmail address, in case things have changed since I last did so..
Normally it is alex.mysurname@gmail.com.
I sent from my work address to a.lexmysurname@gmail.com, and it arrived just fine, as I expected.
Then one to just alexmysurname@gmail.com, and that has also arrived.
Normally it is alex.mysurname@gmail.com.
I sent from my work address to a.lexmysurname@gmail.com, and it arrived just fine, as I expected.
Then one to just alexmysurname@gmail.com, and that has also arrived.
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