Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by blindm on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:51PM (#24307084)

I love the way most services treat dotted addresses as separate addresses. So for example if you wanted multiple accounts on $service you could register the following:

    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]

And now you have six accounts, with the bonus of receiving mail in the same inbox for each account!

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by kevincox on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:48PM (#24307802)

It is worth noting that these are different addresses. They all go to the same inbox but that isn't part of the "email API".

Of course some services don't like this so they special case gmail.com addresses to try to block this but it is perfectly legal for a mail server to route these to different mailboxes (such as GSuite accounts do).

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by acruns on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:09PM (#24307323)

You can also use @googlemail.com domain name instead of @gmail.com to double the number of email addresses.

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by blindm on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:53PM (#24307893)

Yes, you could do even more shenanigans registering with the following:

    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]

    john.doe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com
    j.ohndoe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com
    jo.hndoe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com
    joh.ndoe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com
    johnd.oe+uniquestring@@googlemail.com
    johndo.e+uniquestring@@googlemail.com

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by blindm on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:16PM (#24319111)

Oops there's a mistake there; there's supposed to be just one `@` symbol!

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by black3r on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:01PM (#24307209)

And if you somehow didn't know there is the possibility of adding +anything to your email, so that you can do [email protected] and know which service leaked your email to spammers/advertisers

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by FabHK on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:29PM (#24308992)

well, using the dot between any two letters or not, you have 2^6 = 64 combinations (without even using double or triple dots...)

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by har33sh on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:59PM (#24307181)

You can also add multiple dots :)

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by blindm on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:55PM (#24307926)

Yes but I imagine most services would spot that as an invalid address? Although it's worth trying something like

    [email protected]

To see if it passes as a valid address. Don't use this for evil, okay?

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by justin_oaks on Friday August 28, 2020 @07:15PM (#24311485)

No, not multiple dots in a row. They still have to be between two non-dot characters.

Two dots in the email instead of one:

    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    ...
    [email protected]

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Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses by toddmatthews on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:04PM (#24307266)

you can do that with gmail with the + character.

[email protected] [email protected]

they all go to the same address

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