I do like Gmail, but whats this about?

[Marcos]

I'm receiving other people's emails in my inbox. Genuine emails, but this other person's email address is just one or 2 dots different to mine. So i'm getting Sirius XM emails that I have nothing to do with and even office emails.

So what's scarier is....does this happen to everyone? And where the heck could my emails be going??

[jim]

If you're talking about full stops, i.e. marcos[at]gmail.com or mar.cos[at]gmail.com, then there's absolutely no difference.

Gmail ignores dots, so m.a.r.c.o.s[at]gmail.com is just as valid as marcos[at]gmail.com

[mycarsavw]

Check the headers of the emails, are they being forwarded to you?

[peterb]

If you're talking about full stops, i.e. marcos[at]gmail.com or mar.cos[at]gmail.com, then there's absolutely no difference.

Gmail ignores dots, so m.a.r.c.o.s[at]gmail.com is just as valid as marcos[at]gmail.com

Strictly, gmail ignores dots before the @ sign. Dots afterwards important!

[Marcos]

If you're talking about full stops, i.e. marcos[at]gmail.com or mar.cos[at]gmail.com, then there's absolutely no difference.

Gmail ignores dots, so m.a.r.c.o.s[at]gmail.com is just as valid as marcos[at]gmail.com

I'm getting emails directed to marcos.xxxxxx and marco.x.xxxxx when I am marcosxxxxxx. But they look legit, none of the emails seem spammy or junk.

Do you think its just people handing out the wrong email to people, e.g. marcos.xxxxxx@gmail.com when really it is hotmail they use?

[Marcos]

Check the headers of the emails, are they being forwarded to you?

From: SiriusXM <support-sirius@sirius.chtah.com>
Subject: Your HIGHLIGHTS for October 20 - November 2
Date: 21 October 2011 00:20:40 GMT+01:00
To: marco.s.xxxxxx@gmail.com
Reply-To: SiriusXM <support-bwthgsdbgv5uhbau7zea5qc7x3dsy9@sirius.chtah.com>
Delivered-To: marco.s.xxxxxx@gmail.com
Received: by 10.224.6.149 with SMTP id 21cs66779qaz; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:20:20 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.52.88.109 with SMTP id bf13mr1829505vdb.86.1319152819424; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:20:19 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mta124.cheetahmail.com (mta124.cheetahmail.com. [66.165.100.125]) by mx.google.com with SMTP id dk9si7717610vdc.125.2011.10.20.16.20.19; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:20:19 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <bo-bwthgsdbgv5uhbau7zea5qc7x3dsy9@b.sirius.chtah.com>
Received-Spf: pass (google.com: domain of bo-bwthgsdbgv5uhbau7zea5qc7x3dsy9@b.sirius.chtah.com designates 66.165.100.125 as permitted sender) client-ip=66.165.100.125;
Domainkey-Status: good (test mode)
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of bo-bwthgsdbgv5uhbau7zea5qc7x3dsy9@b.sirius.chtah.com designates 66.165.100.125 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=bo-bwthgsdbgv5uhbau7zea5qc7x3dsy9@b.sirius.chtah.com; domainkeys=pass (test mode) header.From=support-sirius@chtah.com
Domainkey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=200505; d=chtah.com; b=kRHXi04nJaKRHtcjoiG6ZilkhshGZ6DZdPHjviXO71m6wLXNHtxCmE0I9jk/MLL8pY1U/J/pKBX0FFEFFAuW0jSsncK67fSanm6P/Tm0YRE/0+9WJQ7Euw8cOl/2y5gnBMmGsIL3FMhabbQRWEcXbIUjdqtmE4R00tKufBLOegs=; h=Date:Message-ID:List-Unsubscribe:From:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Reply-To:Content-type;
Message-Id: <bwthgsdbgv5uhbau7zea5qc7x3dsy9.14717582001.7113@mta124.sirius.chtah.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:rm-0bwthgsdbgv5uhbau7zea5qc7x3dsy9@sirius.chtah.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=bwthgsdbgv5uhbau7zea5qc7x3dsy9"

Doesnt appear so but I dont know my way around headers too much

[Jay]

header looks good to me

Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of bo-bwthgsdbgv5uhbau7zea5qc7x3dsy9@b.sirius.chtah.com designates 66.165.100.125 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=bo-bwthgsdbgv5uhbau7zea5qc7x3dsy9@b.sirius.chtah.com; domainkeys=pass (test mode) header.From=support-sirius@chtah.com

[mycarsavw]

Header looks fine, I'd say the sender has the wrong address.

[Marcos]

Cool, well, i'll worry less from now on