Thanks all – I’ll try to contact vendors for anything sensitive and ignore the
rest, I guess.
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Deborah Crocker, Ph.D.
deborah.croc...@ua.edu<mailto:deborah.croc...@ua.edu>
Systems Engineer III
http://bama.ua.edu/~crock<http://bama.ua.edu/%7Ecrock>
Office of Information Technology
205-348-3758
University of Alabama
Fax: 205-348-3993
Box 870346
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:felic...@kluge.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:44 AM
To: Crocker, Deborah
Cc: Lopsa Discussion
Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Help with gmail technical problem
FYI: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en is right up this
question's alley.
On Jan 28, 2015 9:27 AM, "Crocker, Deborah" <cr...@ua.edu<mailto:cr...@ua.edu>>
wrote:
I’ve got a problem with getting another persons gmail. I am
firstname.lastn...@gmail.com<mailto:firstname.lastn...@gmail.com> and I
occasionally get email to
firstnamelastn...@gmail.com<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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
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Deborah Crocker, Ph.D.
deborah.croc...@ua.edu<mailto:deborah.croc...@ua.edu>
Systems Engineer III
http://bama.ua.edu/~crock<http://bama.ua.edu/%7Ecrock>
Office of Information Technology
205-348-3758<tel:205-348-3758>
University of Alabama
Fax: 205-348-3993<tel:205-348-3993>
Box 870346
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
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