I believe it's a Gmail thing as I get both leamhall (standard) and leam.hall stuff.
Leam On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Crocker, Deborah <cr...@ua.edu> wrote: > I’ve got a problem with getting another persons gmail. I am > firstname.lastn...@gmail.com and I occasionally get email to > firstnamelastn...@gmail.com but this is different person. I discovered it > with a Vendor rewards account where I got an update and logged (had to > recover a password, hmmm) and found stuff I didn’t recognize. Searched > through a bit more and found a name and city. Person actually lives 60 miles > down the road. Then realized it wasn’t my email address. So I called the > vendor and the problem seemed to get sorted out. But it continues with other > vendors. I started getting facebook friend suggests for people I have no > clue about. Sure enough at the bottom of the email it says it was sent to > firstnamelastn...@gmail.com. Recently got from another vendor, one which I’m > pretty sure the original enrollee would need to get. I don’t get email all > the time for this person (no messages from other persons). The errant > messages all say they were sent to firstnamelastn...@gmail.com. > > > > So is it the vendors or gmail? I could see some company dropping my “.” and > sending my email to the other person, but why this way? Can guarantee the > gmail online help center doesn’t cover this one. > > > > Thanks for any help > > > > D. Crocker > > > > -- > *********************************************************************** > Deborah Crocker, Ph.D. > deborah.croc...@ua.edu > Systems Engineer III > http://bama.ua.edu/~crock > Office of Information Technology > 205-348-3758 > University of Alabama > Fax: 205-348-3993 > Box 870346 > Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- Mind on a Mission _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
