HomeDo you use gmail? If so, good choice 😉 It has a lot of useful features!
I wanted to send an e-mail to a friend who once told me that his address is jacksmith@gmail.com (common practice)… or it was jack.smith@gmail.com? Hmm…
Luckily, in gmail the problem doesn’t exist!
Supposing you have registered as username@gmail.com, no matter how many letters you’d capitalize in login and how many dots you will add, the e-mail will reach your addres! So for example all the addresses below reach the same destination:
username@gmail.com = user.name@gmail.com = u.S.E.r.N.a.M.E@gmail.com = .....user....n..A.....M...E@gmail.com
What is the sense in this practice? First of all – convenience: one do not have to remember whether there was dot between name and surname or not. Secondly: security reasons (phishing etc.). This practice protects our identity limiting the risk of registering e-mails that would resemble the original one.
You can read more at Google Help Center.
Thanks Mateusz for having fun discovering this feature 😉
