First World Problems

[zenga]

It's worth noting that this is specifically a feature of gmail e-mail addresses, and does NOT apply to 99.99999% other mail hosts.

Another trick you can use with gmail is dots. if you have abcd@gmail.com, you will also receive the emails from abc.d@gmail.com, ab.cd@gmail.com, a.b.c.d@gmail.com, etc.

Huh are you sure about that? Back in the day when gmail was still invite only I registered a whole bunch of names and set them up with forwards. One of them was myfirstnamemylastname@gmail.com. The only other dude in the world with the same name like me (family) mailed me a while later if it was fine if he registered myfirstname.mylastname@gmail.com. Ever since we both use our own, even happen to send emails to eachother now and then.

[rfarris]

Huh are you sure about that?

Yes, we're sure about that.

[zenga]

Yes, we're sure about that.

Fair enough. I double checked and it is still like this: I have myfirstnamemylastname@gmail.com and the other guy myfirstname.mylastname@gmail.com and both our emails arrive how they should. So I can only assume there are some exceptions.