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Hi! I'm new to the forum, I tried to search for an issue similar to mine, but i coudn't find it. So here is my problem, I have a gmail account with a dot in it (since 2010) , and I have been recieving emails for the same adress but without the dot (It's the first time in all this years). I google it and found out that gmail treats both accounts as the same (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=es-419), I'm really concern about privacy and really don't want to change my account is really an inconvenient, any ideas?

Sorry if my english isn't good, it's not my main language.

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That's not a privacy issue, email is not private information. Just set up a filter in Gmail to automatically sort to separate folder or something.

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It doesn't reserve the address without a dot??

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This is because you have old Gmail account. Before Gmail was popular you could have it reserve both addresses for same account. Both my main and secondary have this. They are both really old accounts, one from 2009 and other from 2010. They are both your addresses for same account. You can test this by trying to sign in with dot at some point of the name. It resolves to same account since Google treats the username without dots as full.

 

This might be how they still do things, haven't tested so can't say for sure.

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