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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Correct, Gmail essentially doesn't "see" dots hello@gmail is the same as h.e.l.l.o@gmail

hello+anything@gmail will also be delivered to hello@gmail. This is great for signing up for mailing lists or subscriptions then creating a filter afterwards to do with it what you please.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Correct, Gmail essentially doesn’t “see” dots hello@gmail is the same as h.e.l.l.o@gmail

There's one exception to that. If you originally created the email address with a dot in it, as in, signed up for gmail as "[email protected]," it's treated as a literal character in the username portion and is required.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s still not required in this case…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then that has changed at some point. Used to be that if you registered it with a dot in the name, you had to always use that dot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

maybe in the past, but i did that a few years ago and switch between the dot and not

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it had to have changed at some point then. It used to be required that you use the dot if you registered it with the dot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This particular quirk can be easily accounted for tbqh.