Same thing happened to me. When you view a message that goes to your address (without the period, mind you) a little note shows up under the To: line that says "Is this me?" or something similar, and it explains the whole ordeal.
On Feb 10, 2010 3:31pm, Lee Douglas <lee.doug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Making it a little more fun, I learned some time ago that Google doesn't > look at the '.' in my address, but considers lee.douglas and leedouglas > to be identical. What's maddening is that I originally tried to sign up > as LeeDouglas and was told it was unavailable, hence I ended up with > lee.doug...@gmail.com. Now I get mail using both addresses. > Sigh > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com> > wrote: > OK, this seems very weird to me. For some time, mail addressed to > chouse...@gmail.com has been delivered to my c.house...@gmail.com mailbox. > I thought, at some point, I created the chouseman mailbox and configured > forwarding. But I couldn't sign in to Google with the chouseman address > and > no attempts to use their automatic password reset worked. About 3 months > ago I went the distance trying to reset the password, using the last > resort > method several times. Each time I received an automatic message telling me > I should be able to access the account, but of course, I never could. > And then today this comes in: > ---------------------------- > From: accounts-nore...@google.com [mailto:accounts-nore...@google.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:55 PM > To: chouse...@gmail.com > Subject: Google Username Assistance > We searched our database but we were unable to find any usernames > associated > with your email address chouse...@gmail.com. > exist> > ---------------------------- > So the takeaway from that message is what, exactly? There's no username, > therefore there is no account associated with chouse...@gmail.com? And > nonetheless, I have to keep receiving e-mail for that address? I don't see > where a Google account can have multiple e-mail addresses tied to it as > Exchange can, but apparently that's what has happened? > It's crap like this that will keep me from ever recommending cloud > services > from Google. > Carl > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > -- > Lee Douglas • Principal > Phil Ellis Associates, Inc. > PO Box 900 • Wrightsville Beach • NC • 28480-0900 > Phone: 919-481-0160 > Email: leedoug...@pellis.com * Web:http://www.pellis.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/leedouglas > Recruiting Science & Technology > Member: PDA / ISPE / ACS / RAPS / ASQ / AOAC > Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Search and Recruiting. > Celebrating 31 Years of Excellence ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
