Duplicate E-Mail Address

[sigma]

How can someone in Australia have the same e-mail address as myself.

[Jomlett]

I would say impossible. There must be a small difference, say an extra dot one letter or more UPPER CASE.

[BlackadderV]

Email addresses are not case sensitive.

[sunny-dave]

... and dots don't matter in gmail either ...

[BlackadderV]

Is the ending not different, e.g. .au, instead of .uk?

[janbee]

My Aussie relatives have .au at the end of their email addy.

[Ellipsis]

> How can someone in Australia have the same e-mail address as myself.

What do you mean? Is this something you are trying to achieve (in which case yes, it can be done) or is this something that you believe has happened and you didn't want it to?

[AB Editor]

"... and dots don't matter in gmail either ..."

I'm pretty sure they do. Are you saying that [email protected] is the same as [email protected] ? Because this is not the case. Maybe I've misunderstood?

Sigma, is it the same email address as you up until the "@"? Do they have a different email provider?

[sunny-dave]

[email protected] is exactly the same as [email protected]

both for mailing and for logging in.

[sunny-dave]

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en-GB

[sigma]

My e-mail addy is [email protected] the Australian one is identical [email protected]

[AB Editor]

Amazing. I did not know that. Thanks!

[bibblebub]

that's only for gmail

[sigma]

I've just realised, they have put the wrong e-mail address in their contact details.

[Old_Geezer]

:-)

Had to be something like that or the system wouldn't know which inbox to drop the post into ;-)