Gmail doesn’t recognize dots
Today i was testing an application that i have built this weekend for which i need to create some couple of accounts in the application which requires unique email ID for each account and we have to verify it to successfully create an account. (app sends a key in the email to verify )
I have some 3 emails of mine but then i need to create at least 10 accounts to test it properly. insted of creating 10 emails accounts for testing, i found this cool trick .
Gmail doesn’t recognize dots
that means sandeep.eecs@gmail.com is same as sandeepeecs@gmail.com, s.a.n.d.e.e.p.e.e.c.s@gmail.com or sand.eep.ee.cs@gmail.com (cant believe it, just go to gmail.com and try logging in with out dots if ur username has dots. it works 
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As my application does recognize dots. So each time i enter my emails with dots at different places it thinks them as new email id and creates account for it. and i could finish my testing with one email ID only 
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Found it interesting so thought of sharing it with you guys.
BTW it seems even Facebooks did same thing for vanity url . facebook.com/psandeepreddy is same as facebook.com/p.sandeep.reddy
U found it pretty late man..I already researched and knew it long back..hahaha
Funny that I never noticed this. My gmail address has a dot and I never thought to try it without, but indeed Google doesn’t care. Here is the official word….
“Your address is similar but has more or fewer dots (.) or different capitalization.
Sometimes you may receive a message sent to an address that looks like yours but has a different number or arrangement of periods. While we know it might be unnerving if you think someone else’s mail is being routed to your account, don’t worry: both of these addresses are yours.
Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they’ll all go to your inbox, and only yours. In short:
o homerjsimpson@gmail.com = hom.er.j.sim.ps.on@gmail.com
o homerjsimpson@gmail.com = HOMERJSIMPSON@gmail.com
o homerjsimpson@gmail.com = Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com
All these addresses belong to the same person. You can see this if you try to sign in with your username, but adding or removing a dot from it. You’ll still go to your account.
One last thing: Google Apps does recognize dots. If you’d like to have a dot in your username, please ask your domain administrator to add your preferred username as a nickname.”