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richyfingers said:
The whole dot thing is a pain for me too. I joined when it first started up and took the format [email protected]. Now I get a lod of crap through from someone who seems to have signed up using [email protected]. Why do google allow people to sign up for essentially what is the same email account? I also worry that maybe he will recieve some of my emals as I seem to get so many which are clearly intended for him.
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Umm, this shouldn't be happening. According to Google, if you register "firstname.lastname" then you also own "firstnamelastname" as well to prevent this issue.

I just tested it and I can login with both versions when I have only physically registered one of them. Emails sent to both versions also come through.

Are you sure the other person is not misspelling the intended address e.g. Bryan instead of Brian or something like that?
 
richyfingers said:
The whole dot thing is a pain for me too. I joined when it first started up and took the format [email protected]. Now I get a lod of crap through from someone who seems to have signed up using [email protected]. Why do google allow people to sign up for essentially what is the same email account? I also worry that maybe he will recieve some of my emals as I seem to get so many which are clearly intended for him.
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They're just misspelling your address. Gmail have always had the dot rule so no one has made an account similar to yours. http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10313

Gmail is better than anything else out there. Run Google Apps with your own domain and you can move provider whenever you want but keep the same address.
 
Pho said:
They're just misspelling your address. Gmail have always had the dot rule so no one has made an account similar to yours. http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10313

Gmail is better than anything else out there. Run Google Apps with your own domain and you can move provider whenever you want but keep the same address.
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how much is google apps. I've had a quick look and it's $50 per year, is that right?
 
Moses said:
I don't really care about how the websites are, in all honesty. At the moment I have two uni emails, a Gmail account, a GMX account and a @me account, all set up on my Blackberry (the first three being the ones I actually use, the other two because I'm tempted to experiment).
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If you don't care about the website then why would they be any different? :p

gmail is, IMO the best due to integration with everything.

I get gmx emails to my gmail account
 
Richie said:
Umm, this shouldn't be happening. According to Google, if you register "firstname.lastname" then you also own "firstnamelastname" as well to prevent this issue.

I just tested it and I can login with both versions when I have only physically registered one of them. Emails sent to both versions also come through.

Are you sure the other person is not misspelling the intended address e.g. Bryan instead of Brian or something like that?
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That's what I initially thought as there are two common ways of spelling my second name however I've had emails through from sites that it appears he's signed up to such as national grid and some newsletter type things (he's American). I've also had a couple of emails from sites that he's signed up to on behalf of his children so I can't really imagine him spelling his own name wrong. It's bizzare.
 
Glaucus said:
How?
They only update the server. They don't update on other devices, like yahoo/gmail do.
If I look at a yahoo email on the iPad, the iPad and net version are updated as viewed, if I switch to iPhone, it is still shown as unviewed and as far as I know there is nothing you can do to change this.
Unlike yahoo/gmail, which updates across all platforms.
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Active sync is the push thing and it is indeed supported. Should just work if you enter your U/P in(go autodiscovery!).
 
JohnnyDrama said:
I've been using gmail since it game out. Fed up of the whole dot thing.

There are about ten people in the world who think they have my email address but with dots in the middle

[email protected] etc when gmail ignores the dots. I get so much rubbish through and the report spam feature never works!
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I have the same issue - I got my firstname.lastname account early on and now I seem to get retards giving out my address as theirs, signing up to websites and a few attempts to log in as me. Worse still some muppet with the same name as me registered an e-mail address with a spelling mistake - thinking he had my e-mail address he stuck it on his business website... I've since had mails from his customers and still get them occasionally despite him having removed the adress since..
 
richyfingers said:
The whole dot thing is a pain for me too. I joined when it first started up and took the format [email protected]. Now I get a lod of crap through from someone who seems to have signed up using [email protected]. Why do google allow people to sign up for essentially what is the same email account? I also worry that maybe he will recieve some of my emals as I seem to get so many which are clearly intended for him.
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They don't - it's your adress - any combination of dots or simply no dots is still your address - you can test it yourself. You've just got some retard who's given out the wrong e-mail address or has friends who've mis-typed his address. Perhaps he registered firstnamelastname1 and they missed off the '1'
 
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