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Devank
Devank

Reputation: 159

Gmail valid email address

I came across a very strange feature of Gmail, I am not 100% sure whether it is a feature or not.

The below email address are valid for a given email address [email protected]:

  1. [email protected]
  2. [email protected]

How many such cases are there where any email provider accepts these?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 12257

Answers (1)

Ajeet Shah
Ajeet Shah

Reputation: 19843

Google doesn't treat the . as a character in their email addresses. Hence [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected] refer to the same email address.

And somewhat similar is true with using + in your Gmail addresses, for example, [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected] refer to the same email address.

These features of Gmail might help you easily create various filters. Note that the same might not be true for other email service providers.

Source: googleblog

Upvotes: 2

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