I'm not really sure how email routing works, but someone ordered something on
Amazon and I received the email instead of them. Or maybe we both got it, I don't know. The order doesn't show up in my account, so I'm certain I wasn't charged for it, but I shouldn't be getting other peoples' emails.
We'll say that my email is
[email protected], and somebody who's email is
[email protected] places an order on
Amazon. The confirmation email is sent to me at
[email protected]. I checked the email header, and it did say To:
[email protected] which is not my email address.
At first I thought that Google ignores periods in email addresses, but I tested the account setup and it doesn't give any error when you put a period in the address. I didn't create the account; I just used the "check availability" function and the address I chose with a period was fine.
Maybe someone with knowledge about how Email works could tell me why this happened. Is this a bug in the way
Amazon sends emails? Or is it a bug in how Google receives them? Who should I report this issue to?