GMail – got someone else’s email into your Inbox

Hi Everyone,

Today i got a mail on my gmail id but i checked email id it was not mine.

But it was there in my inbox and there was a nice message after that email id which looks like my email id.

See it.

Yes. This is the text which i saw after that email id looking like my email id but with 2-3 dots (.) in that email id and i followed the link to “Learn more” about this thing.

And i was shocked to see the result.

Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they’ll all go to your inbox, and only yours.

so if your email id is abcdef@gmail.com then even a.b.c.e.d.e.f@gmail.com is also yours.

All these addresses belong to the same person. You can see this if you try to sign in with your username, but adding or removing a dot from it. You’ll still go to your account.

It was really amazing thing for me.

Info URL – http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=10313

What about you ?

You were aware of this thing before ?