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Racle@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Gmail allow using a + to create faux-labels

I wonder how they handle gmail addresses with dots as you can put dot in anywhere and it still will redirect to your email.

I’ve setup (for few services which don’t allow + sign) emails like foobar@gmail.com, foo.bar@gmail.com, fo.o.bar@gmail.com and they all come to my inbox.

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0x0@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
IIRC Gmail interprets foo.bar, f.o.o.b.a.r and foobar as the same account (the latter).

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- sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  At some point they didn’t, so I heard there are now a couple of accounts that only differ in dot and it’s not yet resolved by Google ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  
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- Racle@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yep, that what I was trying to say 😄 Been using that feature for years.
  
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neatchee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I imagine because it can’t be used to add additional junk characters to the address, they probably just strip them out before doing their string comparison

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- Racle@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If they know this case. In other email services dots are usually not a junk characters.
  
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  - neatchee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    For the same of checking uniqueness it’s probably fine to just ignore them. Yeah, it sucks if johndoe@obscure.domain and john.doe@obscure.domain can’t sign the same petition but outside of the big email services I imagine that kind of collision is pretty rare
    
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