Known issue, Gmail drops dots.  Elijah.wright and elijahwright go to the
same place.

Yup, pretty annoying....

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On Friday, January 23, 2015, Crocker, Deborah <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I’ve got a problem with getting another persons gmail. I am
> [email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> and I
> occasionally get email to [email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> but this is
> different person. I discovered it with a Vendor rewards account where I got
> an update and logged (had to recover a password, hmmm) and found stuff I
> didn’t recognize. Searched through a bit more and found a name and city.
> Person actually lives 60 miles down the road. Then realized it wasn’t my
> email address. So I called the vendor and the problem seemed to get sorted
> out. But it continues with other vendors. I started getting facebook friend
> suggests for people I have no clue about. Sure enough at the bottom of the
> email it says it was sent to [email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>. Recently
> got from another vendor, one which I’m pretty sure the original enrollee
> would need to get. I don’t get email all the time for this person (no
> messages from other persons). The errant messages all say they were sent to
> [email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>.
>
>
>
> So is it the vendors or gmail? I could see some company dropping my “.”
> and sending my email to the other person, but why this way? Can guarantee
> the gmail online help center doesn’t cover this one.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help
>
>
>
> D. Crocker
>
>
>
> --
> ***********************************************************************
>      Deborah Crocker,
> Ph.D.
> [email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>
>      Systems Engineer
> III
> http://bama.ua.edu/~crock
>      Office of Information
> Technology
> 205-348-3758
>      University of
> Alabama
>   Fax: 205-348-3993
>      Box 870346
>      Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
>
>
>
>
>
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