Most people think an email address is just a username and a domain. It is a lot more than that. This covers structure, rule, edge case, and security trap worth knowing about.
“Gmail ignores dots entirely in the local part. This is not an RFC standard. It is Gmail-specific behavior.”
Google does this all the time. They ignore parts of a spec, and by their sheer scale cause problems for other software. I’ve seen this first hand in their fonts and PDFs. I don’t know if it’s arrogance or maliciousness, but it’s one more reason for me to dislike them.
“Gmail ignores dots entirely in the local part. This is not an
RFCstandard. It is Gmail-specific behavior.”Google does this all the time. They ignore parts of a spec, and by their sheer scale cause problems for other software. I’ve seen this first hand in their fonts and PDFs. I don’t know if it’s arrogance or maliciousness, but it’s one more reason for me to dislike them.