Why Is Gmail Not Considered A Valid Email Address?

DCFC79

Meepster wrote: »

buy.com do...

Just set up an account with them using my gmail address

http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/824192-6112011101137PM

walmart also accepted my yahoo.co.uk address but not as conclusive as buy.com screen shot

http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/693693-6112011103238PM

easyhost

ColinFishwick wrote: »

Shame he has to hide his details in proxy and or his other web site is clearly breaking Nominets rules

which website all my active sites have details available and complay with nominet rules

easyhost

BunShopBandit wrote: »

Elsewhere you told someone their IP had been blocked where clearly it had not.

if you read that thread correctly i said that was a possible reason i never said that was the reason.

easyhost

BunShopBandit wrote: »

It's funny you mention reading a thread properly. I'm sure you continued down the freemailer avenue long after numerous people had said "GMAIL & MARKS & SPENCERS WORKS FINE" ?

Regarding the blacklisted IP you said 'may' be the reason. In reality anyone with half an inch of !!!!!! would know that would be very unlikely to be the issue.

well i wont be helping anyone else when their are people like ColinFishwick making things personal against me

asbokid

easyhost wrote: »

i will not inform maxmind that every one on MSE think their list is wrong as those on MSE are happy to have fraudsters use their services

http://northumberlandfriends.co.uk/banned_emails.txt

allergist.com
alumidirector.com
AmExMail.com
aol.com
apexmail.com
archeologist.com
arrl.net
asia.com

Banning AOL-ers is a way to lose a lot of friends very quickly.

AOL has 10 million customers in the USA alone.

buglawton

Does your email address have a hyphen in it? E.g. [EMAIL="smythe-jones@poshmail.com"]smythe-jones@poshmail.com[/EMAIL] ?

I have this issue with a domain I own that has a hyphen so that [EMAIL="myemailaddress@mydoman-name.com"]myemailaddress@mydoman-name.com[/EMAIL] is rejected by some (stupid) sites when I want to register with them.

asbokid

easyhost wrote: »

well i wont be helping anyone else when their are people like ColinFishwick making things personal against me

Where's John Stape when you need him?!

chunter

Anyone who uses email lists collected through through their website will know the majority of emails addresses are these "free emails" (most of the rest are isp related)

As someone said earlier, it'd be just plain silly to ban them from an ecommerce site. Business ineptitude in fact.

Crazy thread.

buglawton

Oh yes, also avoid an email address with 2 dots before the @ e.g. my.email.address@gmail.com these get rejected.

Richie-from-the-Boro

No comment on the previous # numbers but I've used and continue to use gmail since [ someone will correct me if I'm wrong] about 2002 I think.

I've never had any of the issues mentioned. The fact of the matter is that there are 26 letters in the modern English & American alphabet. If you insert extra dots or diacritics or any other ' style ' characters things can and often do go wrong.