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NOT Receiving Other People's Gmail

Update: I was wrong! I just found out that the account name first.last@gmail.com, firstlast@gmail.com, f.irstlast@gmail.com and any combination thereof map to my account.

Update 2: Google’s Response

A unsettling thing has been happening in my gmail inbox lately. I have been receiving other peoples’ email, well more specifically – one other person’s email.

Granted we have the same name, which we use as our email address – the only difference being he separates his first and last name with a period.

It seems to happen randomly. So far it has only happened twice – both were new messages and luckily, neither personal in nature.

When I received the first one, I immediately sent a help message to Google (oddly I couldn’t find a place to report a bug on their ‘beta’), and I still haven’t heard back from them, though. Really, but who can blame them? It does seem like a slightly crazy tech support request.

Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know where to report bugs on gmail?