Gmail Updates

[Sushubh]

Gmail search gets auto-complete predictions!

 

[Sushubh]

Gmail gets support for Welsh and Latin American Spanish

 

[Sushubh]

Microsoft’s advisory speaks of “active attacks” and follows a separate note from Google that references the IE flaw “being actively exploited in the wild for targeted attacks.”

'State-sponsored attackers' using IE zero-day to hijack GMail accounts | ZDNet

 

[Saurav]

Since when does this started happening?

Your address is similar but has more or fewer dots (.) or different capitalization.
Receiving someone else's mail - Gmail Help

I had no clue. Why has Google done this? Confused.

 

[aviral sangal]

Google do not recognise dots in email id. It was like this since a very long time

 

[mhsabir]

I am sure they used to allow, when did they stop?

 

[manu1991]

Allow and recognize are different things. If for example you have an id mhsabir[at]gmail.com then all mail sent to mh.sabir or mhsa.bir [at] gmail will also be sent to you. At least this is what I remember.

 

[Jaymin]

Thankfully i dont have any dots in my email id. Else my mails would have landed in someone else's mailbox!

 

[mhsabir]

Ah Jaymin, but thats what manu is trying to explain. Internally Gmail doesnt really use dots so esentially [email protected] & [email protected] is the same. And by this logic. Once anyone creates an id [email protected], it would not allow anyone to create [email protected] as well.

In fact, now that I recall, it used to allow filters to be set in a way so that you can categorize mails & dont really need multiple email IDs, something of that sort. Had not fully understood it then. Now I think they must have meant, for example, you can share [email protected] to friends & [email protected] to business associates & when they send a mail. It will be able to recognize based on filters and place it in appropriate folders & hence no need of two separate IDs.

 

[Jaymin]

Ok....i was under the impression that they did allow u to create [email protected] earlier. Misunderstandings!