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Are you sure the periods thing works? I use the plus thing all the time, but I just tested adding random periods and it didn't seem to work.

I'm using an apps account, so that might have something to do with it.

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Periods definitely do work (at least on regular gmail accounts). I can't find anything regarding G Apps though. https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...

There can be some odd glitches with that if your -actual- email address has a random dot in it.

I would assume that internally there would be some lookup to know to deliver an email to `myemail@gmail.com' to the actual user at `my.email@gmail.com', but I could be wrong. I can't test this because my email address doesn't use periods.

Yes. There is one "canonical" address - if you try to log in as myem.ail@gmail.com it will fail.

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