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Post by katlady on Aug 24, 2019 15:54:16 GMT
So, the two are related - the annoyance with gmail and the tip.
First the gmail tip - Did you know you can have multiple email addresses from your one account by adding periods or the + sign? If my email address is katlady@gmail.com, I can also use kat.lady@gmail.com, or even k.a.t.l.a.d.y@gmail.com. And with the plus sign I can use katlady+amazon@gmail.com or katlady+2peas@gmail.com. I never knew this! It is a great way to separate out different emails without having to get another gmail account.
Now the annoyance - someone in Japan is trying to sign up for Dropbox using kat.lady@gmail.com. This is what made me search the internet for info about gmail addresses. I know just enough Japanese to not click on the verify link. I am not too concerned since it seems to be a mistake on this person's part. I think the person has a first name of "kat". It is just an annoyance. I've had my email address for more than 10 years now. I don't want to have to change it. Sigh!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2019 16:06:34 GMT
I knew about the periods, but not about the plus sign. Does the plus sign do the same thing as the period by allowing you to create additional email addresses using your root email?
What I’ve been encountering is spam email that has my email address as the sender so that I can’t even block it. ☹️
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Post by pinklady on Aug 24, 2019 16:15:15 GMT
I don’t think it’s a good thing and honestly it’s the one think I hate about gmail If johnsmith@gmail.com is created and another person creates john.smith@gmail.com, they can get each other’s email and if I’m not mistaken reset each other’s passwords.
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Post by katlady on Aug 24, 2019 16:20:21 GMT
I knew about the periods, but not about the plus sign. Does the plus sign do the same thing as the period by allowing you to create additional email addresses using your root email? What I’ve been encountering is spam email that has my email address as the sender so that I can’t even block it. ☹️ Yes, the + allows you to create more email address with your root email. Spammers suck! |
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Post by katlady on Aug 24, 2019 16:22:18 GMT
I don’t think it’s a good thing and honestly it’s the one think I hate about gmail If johnsmith@gmail.com is created and another person creates john.smith@gmail.com, they can get each other’s email and if I’m not mistaken reset each other’s passwords. But I think whoever gets it first has the root email address of johnsmith. So if john.smith gets his email address first, I don't think johnsmith will be allowed to get his. At least, in theory that is how I think it works. |
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Post by craftykitten on Aug 24, 2019 16:48:38 GMT
And this is how I kept getting invitations to a wedding in Ohio. I kept trying to tell them I wasn't the person they were looking for!
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Aug 24, 2019 17:29:57 GMT
I don’t think it’s a good thing and honestly it’s the one think I hate about gmail If johnsmith@gmail.com is created and another person creates john.smith@gmail.com, they can get each other’s email and if I’m not mistaken reset each other’s passwords. No, it doesn't work like that. The first person who creates johnsmith@gmail.com also owns john.smith@gmail.com, so nobody else can create that email address. The problem comes when john.smith1@gmail.com signs up to receive emails from a clothing company and either forgets to add the 1 in his registration, or the company mishears or "autocorrects" him and doesn't put in the 1. Then the emails get delivered to john.smith@gmail.com, which is actually johnsmith@gmail.com. If a password reset on the clothing company site is generated by john.smith1, it will be sent to johnsmith's account. If johnsmith can be bothered, he can then reset the password and close the account, forcing the careless john.smith1 to create a new account and get it right this time. But john.smith1@gmail.com cannot reset johnsmith's gmail password because the reset password will always go back to johnsmith. I have a hotel chain in India that keeps trying to send emails to a Mr Yeshu SomethingorotherIndian because he's obviously used some incorrect permutation of my anonymous email address to sign up for them. But it isn't spam. I've made a friend in New Zealand because her email address was mine8@gmail.com and people keep leaving the 8 off the end and sending her Lions newsletters to me. I finally worked out the correct address, forwarded the mails on to her, and now we have a nice chat every so often. Another idiot in north Wales gave out mine@gmail.com instead of mine7@gmail.com when she was selling her kids' toys on a local site. I got bombarded with some quite nasty messages (after I didn't answer the first time) and when I tracked down the correct address she was quite rude to me. It all makes life interesting! |
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Aug 24, 2019 17:32:51 GMT
And this is how I kept getting invitations to a wedding in Ohio. I kept trying to tell them I wasn't the person they were looking for! I'm sure I read an article about a guy who was invited to a stag do in the US by mistake exactly that way. When he pointed out the error, the guys said oh sorry, our bad, come along anyway. And he did, and had the time of his life and made a bunch of random new friends. Isn't that fun? I love stories like that. |
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Post by dewryce on Aug 24, 2019 17:58:39 GMT
So where do these different emails show up? Do they all go to the base account johndoe@gmail? I thought mine had a dot John.doe so that’s what I’ve told everyone.
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Post by katlady on Aug 24, 2019 18:41:45 GMT
So where do these different emails show up? Do they all go to the base account johndoe@gmail? I thought mine had a dot John.doe so that’s what I’ve told everyone. The erroneous kat.lady@gmail email showed up in my regular account, katlady. |
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Post by dewryce on Aug 24, 2019 18:54:50 GMT
So where do these different emails show up? Do they all go to the base account johndoe@gmail? I thought mine had a dot John.doe so that’s what I’ve told everyone. The erroneous kat.lady@gmail email showed up in my regular account, katlady. Have you tried any of the + names yet? |
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Post by katlady on Aug 24, 2019 18:59:36 GMT
The erroneous kat.lady@gmail email showed up in my regular account, katlady. Have you tried any of the + names yet? No, not yet. I guess I can test it with an email to myself. I’ll try it later. |
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Post by dewryce on Aug 24, 2019 19:10:26 GMT
Have you tried any of the + names yet? No, not yet. I guess I can test it with an email to myself. I’ll try it later. LOL I realized the same thing a minute ago. Duh. |
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Post by dewryce on Aug 24, 2019 19:15:35 GMT
Okay, it goes to my regularr account. So I’m not sure how that’s helpful?
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Post by katlady on Aug 24, 2019 19:34:15 GMT
Okay, it goes to my regularr account. So I’m not sure how that’s helpful? I think it becomes useful if you use filters. You can set up a filter so that all katlady+amazon@gmail.com emails go into a folder titled "amazon." I can see doing this for receipts or if you get emails from your kid's school, etc. |
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Post by dewryce on Aug 24, 2019 19:36:24 GMT
Okay, it goes to my regularr account. So I’m not sure how that’s helpful? I think it becomes useful if you use filters. You can set up a filter so that all katlady+amazon@gmail.com emails go into a folder titled "amazon." I can see doing this for receipts or if you get emails from your kid's school, etc. I have been googling and trying to set up filters off and on for the past 20 minutes but none of the directions I find match what I have going on on the iPad app. Help! |
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Aug 24, 2019 20:00:15 GMT
I don’t think it’s a good thing and honestly it’s the one think I hate about gmail If johnsmith@gmail.com is created and another person creates john.smith@gmail.com, they can get each other’s email and if I’m not mistaken reset each other’s passwords. No one should be able to create the second email, because it is in effect taken. That said. I get emails for other people ALL THE DAMN time. My gmail is my firstname.lastname and I think I have identified at least 10 other people who have similar addresses that people use mine. One I know is lastname.firstname and her mom often gets it mixed up! her Mom's name is the same as one of my sisters so it is really confusing. I once got a ton of wedding rsvp's for a woman with a similar name in Australia. That was fun! |
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Aug 24, 2019 20:15:42 GMT
Yeah, this thread is very timely! When I returned from vacation last month I had an email in my gmail account (which ends in a number) addressed to a William SomethingOrOther telling him how to activate his Sirius XM radio subscription that he got with his purchase of a new vehicle (it stated the model). Obviously either he gave the address incorrectly (maybe without the number) or the company entered it incorrectly. I've been trying to get that straightened out for about a month and I think I've got it accomplished - at least I stopped getting the emails. No idea whether the guy ever got his subscription.
Funny thing is now a month later I just got a new vehicle (not the same type as the guy in the erroneous email)...and it came with a 3-month subscription to Sirius XM radio (which I am loving BTW). However, mine didn't have to be activated through email; it was already activated directly through the vehicle purchase. Though I am wondering what will happen if I try to contact Sirius to renew the subscription after it runs out in 3 months (if I decide to keep it).
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Aug 24, 2019 22:19:55 GMT
I have multiple accounts with my last name at the beginning and an "identifier" added to it.
So....
lastnamekids@gmail.com = the account I use for anything related to school, sports, band, etc., and I still use it for anything we do for college--FASFA, adding money to their student ID cards, notifications from the parents club, etc.
lastnameretail@gmail.com = the account I use when I order anything online
lastnamerewards@gmail.com = my account for all those annoying rewards cards you need to get discounts
lastnamehousehold@gmail.com = my household billing account
lastnameonline@gmail.com = my account for message boards and other online activity not related to shopping (except 2peas and Facebook--those were created before I started all the different gmail accounts and I still haven't updated them.
The different accounts make it really easy to find an email if I need it, and the "important" ones are set to notify me on the Gmail app (household, retail). Otherwise, I would be getting notifications for all the spam emails that come in to my online and rewards accounts.
It sounds complicated, but once I got used to the categories and when to use them, it really simplified my email life.
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Post by smannes on Aug 24, 2019 22:28:59 GMT
I am pretty proficient with technology but now I feel dumb bc I never knew or heard this. I learned something new today.
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Post by caangel on Aug 24, 2019 22:34:42 GMT
I have multiple accounts with my last name at the beginning and an "identifier" added to it. So.... lastnamekids@gmail.com = the account I use for anything related to school, sports, band, etc., and I still use it for anything we do for college--FASFA, adding money to their student ID cards, notifications from the parents club, etc. lastnameretail@gmail.com = the account I use when I order anything online lastnamerewards@gmail.com = my account for all those annoying rewards cards you need to get discounts lastnamehousehold@gmail.com = my household billing account lastnameonline@gmail.com = my account for message boards and other online activity not related to shopping (except 2peas and Facebook--those were created before I started all the different gmail accounts and I still haven't updated them. The different accounts make it really easy to find an email if I need it, and the "important" ones are set to notify me on the Gmail app (household, retail). Otherwise, I would be getting notifications for all the spam emails that come in to my online and rewards accounts. It sounds complicated, but once I got used to the categories and when to use them, it really simplified my email life. Gmail automatically filters all my retail emails to the promotions tab in my regular email. I never see them unless I want to. It is also smart enough to distinguish between an receipt that I might want and a sales promo email. Receipts are filtered automatically into the Updates folder. |
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Post by mrssmith on Aug 24, 2019 22:41:35 GMT
And this is how I kept getting invitations to a wedding in Ohio. I kept trying to tell them I wasn't the person they were looking for! I'm sure I read an article about a guy who was invited to a stag do in the US by mistake exactly that way. When he pointed out the error, the guys said oh sorry, our bad, come along anyway. And he did, and had the time of his life and made a bunch of random new friends. Isn't that fun? I love stories like that. That was a fun read! Love the sense of adventure! My ex was also invited to a party (local though) after getting a mistaken invite. He didn't attend, but thought it was funny. |
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Post by pattyraindrops on Aug 24, 2019 23:27:28 GMT
I don’t think it’s a good thing and honestly it’s the one think I hate about gmail If johnsmith@gmail.com is created and another person creates john.smith@gmail.com, they can get each other’s email and if I’m not mistaken reset each other’s passwords. No, it doesn't work like that. The first person who creates johnsmith@gmail.com also owns john.smith@gmail.com, so nobody else can create that email address. The problem comes when john.smith1@gmail.com signs up to receive emails from a clothing company and either forgets to add the 1 in his registration, or the company mishears or "autocorrects" him and doesn't put in the 1. Then the emails get delivered to john.smith@gmail.com, which is actually johnsmith@gmail.com. If a password reset on the clothing company site is generated by john.smith1, it will be sent to johnsmith's account. If johnsmith can be bothered, he can then reset the password and close the account, forcing the careless john.smith1 to create a new account and get it right this time. But john.smith1@gmail.com cannot reset johnsmith's gmail password because the reset password will always go back to johnsmith. I have a hotel chain in India that keeps trying to send emails to a Mr Yeshu SomethingorotherIndian because he's obviously used some incorrect permutation of my anonymous email address to sign up for them. But it isn't spam. I've made a friend in New Zealand because her email address was mine8@gmail.com and people keep leaving the 8 off the end and sending her Lions newsletters to me. I finally worked out the correct address, forwarded the mails on to her, and now we have a nice chat every so often. Another idiot in north Wales gave out mine@gmail.com instead of mine7@gmail.com when she was selling her kids' toys on a local site. I got bombarded with some quite nasty messages (after I didn't answer the first time) and when I tracked down the correct address she was quite rude to me. It all makes life interesting! Yes. The dot doesn't mean anything in gmail. The only reason for it is if you like how first.last@gmail.com looks better than firstlast@gmail.com. The same goes for capitals. We had the using the wrong address problem with my husband's account. He was getting magazine subscription notices etc from someone else. That's when I did a search and found out about the dot in gmail. Long story short I ended up trying to call the guy to let him know, but he didn't answer and the next time his box was full. Best I could figure was he was in his 80s and maybe didn't understand technology. Finally wrote him an actual letter and all the emails stopped coming. |
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