Most likely you only created your account as c.house...@gmail.com, and there really is no mailbox chouse...@gmail.com
Here's the rest of the story: Google has stated (search through their help and blogs, I don't remember exactly where I saw it, but it *was* in Google) that if you have a mailbox that has a '.' in the middle of it, they will deliver mail to that mailbox if it's missing the '.'! So, mail addressed to both/either kurt.b...@gmail.com and kurtb...@gmail.com are supposed to reach the same mailbox. Kurt On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 13:25, 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. > > <snipped instructions for accessing my account, which apparently doesn't > 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/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
