About Focus on the Clouds
Early in my life clouds began to catch my eyes. During school, I couldn’t sit by windows in class without being helplessly distracted. Later in life, if I needed to clear my mind, I’d just step outside...
Soon I began expressing this fascination artistically. In fact, this attraction has been one of the major muses for my photography and, as my domain suggests, this web site. And so it is also the purpose of the web site - to distract you for a few moments by sharing some of the scenes which have taken my attention in the past few years.
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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?
Posted by Matt Harris on Apr 20, 01:20 PM
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# On May 3, 03:53 AM, Danny said:
Try this:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Discussion
# On May 4, 04:14 PM, Matt Harris said:
Thanks Danny! I have posted a thread in this group here.
# On Nov 22, 01:33 PM, jenn said:
hey matt—i’m having the same problem with receiving someone else’s emails. the difference in our emails is the period. i’m not able to view the discussion posted.. what was your solution?
thanks,
jenn
# On Nov 23, 07:55 AM, Matt Harris said:
Jenny,
What we determined is that google doesn’t recognize periods in a gmail username. This means that e-mail to FirstLast@gmail.com or First.Last@gmail.com will ALWAYS go to the same inbox.
Here is the link which explains it: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=10313
This means that either someone has incorrectly given out your email address or you are receiving spam which appears to be personal e-mail. The latter seems to be somewhat common for gmail addresses.
You can test this by sending e-mails to the other address using a different account. Best of luck sorting things out.
-Matt