So, my gmail is fname.i.lname@gmail.com. I see SOMEONE else's purchase in my history. That persons name is shown as fname lname@gmail.com. Same as mine except .i. is three spaces.
WTF? Does Google have a bug here? Is there an actual real life human I could send this to?
Edit: the only purchase I see of mine are for Apps I bought from the play store. These don't show up in the link that the Googler posted above.
And not just obscure standards; email addresses are very much public-facing elements of email. The expectation when you register an email address is that that address is now uniquely associated with you. The public does not expect that an email might be delivered to other inboxes than their own.
Why does gmail elide dots again? There must be some reason why a big email provider would deviate so egregiously from the conventions all other email services comply with.
/me not a gmail user, except for certain account recovery purposes.
The dots don't matter.
jennifer@gmail.com marksmith@gmail.com neilpatel@gmail.com
etc. etc. etc.
Win / win either way for OP. Learning opportunity or a bit of cash in hand for relatively little investment.
I was an early GMail user and have a common-ish name. I probably get 30-50 emails a month from confused people ranging from contracts to receipts to racy photos.
I sought support but never got anything official and commenters brushed it off. But I'm pretty sure it was similar to your issue.
As an example name.lastname, na.melastname and namelast.name are all the same email address.
"fname.i.lname@gmail.com" is the same address as "fnameilname@gmail.com"