Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by babblingdweeb 2801 days ago
I cannot speak for other email providers, but my understanding for the past 10 years: this is a Google thing vs. Apple. Google both allows and ignores periods in emails. first.last@gmail.com is the SAME email address as firstlast@gmail.com you CANNOT log in with both accounts. If you created your account as first.last@gmail.com, you can only log in by using that email address.

For more information from Google on this topic: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en
1 comments
irrational 2801 days ago
>If you created your account as first.last@gmail.com, you can only log in by using that email address.

I don't think that's quite right if I'm understanding what you are saying. I've logged into my gmail account using both my.email.address@gmail.com and myemailaddress@gmail.com. Both work and both take me to the same account.

link
snowwrestler 2801 days ago
Based on my own limited testing, it seems like you can remove dots but not add them during login.

So if you created your account as my.name@gmail.com, you can also log into Google with username myname@gmail.com.

But if you created your account as myname@gmail.com, you can't log in with my.name@gmail.com.

link
babblingdweeb 2800 days ago
Correct! I forgot, there was a little nuance there. Thanks for posting that.
link