They cannot be identical, else both of you would get all of both y'all emails.
It's a technical impossibility to thave the same adress between 2 people and not see all emails sent to both. At least not on the internet with SMTP routing.
It would take seperate networks, like in a company network that does not route to the outside world.. but that is a thing of the past these days.
All allowed addressing characters and their use are described in
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822
But in any case
Stijn.vandamme@domain.com
stijnvandamme@domain.com
stijn
vandamme@domain.com < Not allowed
"stijn vandamme"@domain.com > ALLOWED
Stijn..vandamme@domain.com < Not allowed
"Stijn..vandamme"@domain.com > ALLOWED
But, only a stupid Admin will allow spaces and other weird sjit on his server because it can only cause problems and confusion down the line
Even the forum get's all annoyed and tries to add "email" tags and then fails on the spaces
Note, none of it is caps sensitive
so
STIJNVANDAMME@domain.com
is exactly the same as
stijnvandamme@domain.com
or
StIjNvAnDaMmE@domain.com
Quote:
Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
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Then Gmail was not complying to the RFC.. But i fail to see how there is a security problem with that.
IF Gmail consistently ignores the dot and does not allow it in the creation of the account
Then no accounts will have a dot.
So if at that point somebody sends an email, and adds a dot... And Gmail parses the dot out, to end up with the non dot version.
Why would there be a problem?
Any email to
stijn.vandamme@gmail.com would end up in the
stijnvandamme@gmail.com mailbox
and when the user replies, it will be from
stijnvandamme@gmail.com since gmail doesn't do dots.
How would a hacker in that way get access to the account? the password is still there.
You can't login to the mailbox without it.
The only way I can see an issue, if at some point they did allow a . in the adress but not in their routing.
Which would be a bit of a split brain problem and then you supposedly could get the mails to change routing, if the target has a dot, and you slip in with the same adress without a dot.
But that sounds a bit rich to me.. It would be epic retard level at Gmail if they did that.