Gmail weirdy, any ideas?

Dora_the_Explorer_5

I've had a gmail account for years now and it's been fine, except for this:

during the last 10 days I've received two emails addressed to a gmail address very similar to mine ! Any ideas, anyone?

Bob63

Standard gmail feature.

For example if your email address is dora.the.explorer@gmail.com it will also respond perfectly to doratheexplorer@gmail.com as gmail ignores all the punctuation/separator characters in an email address.

They also forward to you any "near misses" so you will get dora.explorer@gmail.com, dora.the.exploder@gmail.com etc. (assuming these addresses aren't registered to somebody else). I think they are trying to be helpful by doing this.

Luckily most near misses tend to be by spammers and gmail's spam trap is very good indeed.

Mike

Dora_the_Explorer_5

Thanks for the explanation Mike. Near misses sounds like the postie slinging the mail over the garden wall in the hope that it's for one of the adjacent houses ! The emails were certainly rubbish.