My email address at gmail is of the form <first>.<last> ‘at’ gmail.com. Well, a few weeks ago I got an odd spam message (odd because gmail’s filter didn’t catch it). Upon further inspection, the recipient address (mine) didn’t have the ‘.’ in it at all. Looks like it wasn’t even supposed to come to me. So I tested sending a message to that address: <first><last> ‘at’ gmail.com (without the ‘.’) and lo and behold…the email got to me. So it appears that the ‘.’ is not necessary when sending? I wouldn’t bank on it or publish my email address that way…what would happen if someone actually registered with that name? Would gmail allow it?
