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>If you created your account as first.last@gmail.com, you can only log in by using that email address.

I don't think that's quite right if I'm understanding what you are saying. I've logged into my gmail account using both my.email.address@gmail.com and myemailaddress@gmail.com. Both work and both take me to the same account.

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Based on my own limited testing, it seems like you can remove dots but not add them during login.

So if you created your account as my.name@gmail.com, you can also log into Google with username myname@gmail.com.

But if you created your account as myname@gmail.com, you can't log in with my.name@gmail.com.

Correct! I forgot, there was a little nuance there. Thanks for posting that.

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