Dot in email

Question

Email

Why doesn't Google treat the dot in an email address as a symbol? Does it meet the standard? Why, then, do other mail servers do this?

Answer 1

Called normalization, by standard the dot should be taken into account, but Google does not pay attention to it for security reasons, so that it is impossible to create a similar email like john.doe and j.ohn.doe.

Answer 2

Also, Google doesn't care about case. And does not allow the creation of accounts with "_" and "-". I think one of the reasons is so that no one can create addresses similar to someone else's (for example, your) address.

Answer 3

and in Google you can put + and write anything you want. For example, a letter to [email protected] will be sent to [email protected]

Answer 4

It always amused me that they take into account the dot in the login.

Answer 5

> Why doesn't Google treat the dot in an email address as a symbol?
What do you mean it doesn't count? I have a dot in the address e.g.

Answer 6

Damn, I'm struggling with the mail collector and I can't understand why gmail doesn't want to pick up mail from another gmail where there is a dot...