Googlemail Email Address

aardvaak

I have a Googlemail Email Address

Can someone please tell me if I always have to quote:-

@googlemail.com

Or can I also quote:-

@gmail.com

Would they both get through to me?

Sparx

They will both work, I prefer providing @gmail.com for mine - short and sweet.

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mttylad

Use @gmail.com - same inbox.

Same as username@gmail.com
user.name@gmail.com
us.er.name@gmail.com
us.er.name@googlemail.com

All end up in the same place.

bingo_bango

mttylad wrote: »

Use @gmail.com - same inbox.

Same as [EMAIL="username@gmail.com"]username@gmail.com[/EMAIL]
[EMAIL="user.name@gmail.com"]user.name@gmail.com[/EMAIL]
[EMAIL="us.er.name@gmail.com"]us.er.name@gmail.com[/EMAIL]
[EMAIL="us.er.name@googlemail.com"]us.er.name@googlemail.com[/EMAIL]

All end up in the same place.

Which is great, except I now have three other people using what must be a similar name, and I get emails for all of them!!

grumpycrab

mttylad wrote: »

Same as [EMAIL="username@gmail.com"]username@gmail.com[/EMAIL]
[EMAIL="user.name@gmail.com"]user.name@gmail.com[/EMAIL]

Came across this a couple of days ago when debugging somebody's email problems. Google may think its clever to ignore "." but I know of no other organisations that do the same.

spud17

grumpycrab wrote: »

Came across this a couple of days ago when debugging somebody's email problems. Google may think its clever to ignore "." but I know of no other organisations that do the same.

Only this weekend I've received a confirmation of a subscription to a magazine to one of my Gmail addresses.

It is my address,but split in 2 by a full stop.

It's in Spanish and definitely not for me.

ballyblack

It is my address,but split in 2 by a full stop

as google ignores full stops, it's your address

paddyrg

spud17 wrote: »

Only this weekend I've received a confirmation of a subscription to a magazine to one of my Gmail addresses.

It is my address,but split in 2 by a full stop.

It's in Spanish and definitely not for me.

The subscriber may have made a typo error, but I doubt if google did.

Do some experiments, send emails to yourself@googlemail.com, your.self@googlemail.com, yourself@gmail.com, you.r.s.e.lf@gmail.com etc

Raggie

paddyrg wrote: »

The subscriber may have made a typo error, but I doubt if google did.

Do some experiments, send emails to [EMAIL="yourself@googlemail.com"]yourself@googlemail.com[/EMAIL], [EMAIL="your.self@googlemail.com"]your.self@googlemail.com[/EMAIL], [EMAIL="yourself@gmail.com"]yourself@gmail.com[/EMAIL], [EMAIL="you.r.s.e.lf@gmail.com"]you.r.s.e.lf@gmail.com[/EMAIL] etc

don't forget you can also "+" to a gmail address...


[EMAIL="yourself+mse@gmail.com"]yourself+"mse"@gmail.com[/EMAIL]
[EMAIL="your.self+mse@gmail.com"]your.self+"mse"@gmail.com[/EMAIL]


where "mse" = "whatever extension you wish"


note: when signing up to email lists/sites etc.. only some systems will recognise the "+" as a valid email character...


Rags

cookie365

Yes, and it's not a way to avoid spammers, since they know about the trick and will simply strip out the +whatever.