Collisions in Google Mail addresses

Question

Google

Hello!
There is a mailbox like [email protected]
Today I receive a letter from Facebook that someone has registered on Facebook with the email address:
[email protected]

I know about the collision. I tried to send a letter to this address - it really came to me (to a box with a dot).
Tell me, is it worth worrying? The box is working, important letters.
Will letters purposefully sent to my mailbox (with a dot) go to the one without a dot?
Worried about data leakage?

Answer 1

The points are not taken into account. [email protected] is the same as [email protected]

Answer 2

I registered my mail [email protected], because [email protected] was already taken, my mail goes to me, to him - his.

Answer 3

let's say your username is avan.lue. Someone else wants avanlue, and they try to sign up for it. You already own all variations (avan.lue, avanlue, avanlue, etc) so we tell them that avanlue is unavailable. So they try a different username, and register avanlue1.
Later, they forget that they had to add the 1. When they sign up for Facebook, they type in "avanlue" instead of "avanlue1." Because you own avanlue, you will get their mail.

Also an interesting point of view.

Answer 4

Guys, thank you very much everyone. The [email protected] crate also comes out - also belongs to me. Is it all just aliases?
But then what's the point of trying to register someone's account on Facebook, if the letter with the code still fell to me?
I don't understand, by God!

Answer 5

Here's what I dug up in Google support. Maybe it will help someone else (in moments of Friday paranoia).
Sometimes you may receive a message sent to an address that looks like yours but has a different number or arrangement of periods. While we know it might be unnerving if you think someone else's mail is being routed to your account, don't: both of these addresses are your worries.
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.

Answer 6

The dots are ignored. Google at one time had a vulnerability because of this, since it was possible to register an email with a dot coinciding with an existing one. After that, it was possible to read the letters sent to the mailbox without a dot. But this has been fixed for a long time.
In addition, you can make an email with a plus sign, this part is ignored [email protected]… [email protected]…
Unfortunately, this trick is not validated on all sites.