Trel
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Hillsborough, NJ | Getting someone elses email at Gmail.
I found I was recieving somebody else's email on my gmail account.
My account is netforce and theirs is netforceusa.
Does anyone here know why this is happening? |
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tempnexus
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Boston, MA | People are too lazy to type in the USA? |
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Trel
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| said by tempnexus  :People are too lazy to type in the USA? No, I'm getting this guy's godaddy emails (receipts and confirmations) and he told me godaddy does have the usa part. |
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BlitzenZeus
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Spam? |
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Trel
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| said by BlitzenZeus :Spam? No, as I said, these were things such as his hosting information, purchase receipts, etc. He was expecting them, but they went to me instead. |
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BlitzenZeus
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Beaverton, OR | Notice the the posting times....
Now if you think this is a real problems with gmail why not forward them on again, and report the problem to gmail? |
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tempnexus
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Well I know that some ISP's and mail servers allow you to add a backup e-mail address just in case you:
1) Forget your password etc.
So he might have accidently set your e-mail as the backup??? Maybe he has a gmail account and forgot to add the USA into the backup e-mail?
Ask him to check his Godaddy settings. |
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Ryan
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Attleboro, MA | reply to Trel
I wouldnt say its a gmail issue because your getting his emails. I would have him contact godaddy or have him check his settings. |
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Trel
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Hillsborough, NJ | reply to Trel
Normally I'd say it was his problem, but I remember hearing about some problem like this with gmail before.
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Ryan
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Its highly unlikely almost impossible. That would mean gmail was hacking into peoples email boxes. They need authentication so that means not only would gmail need the users name it would also need the password to get their email. Email servers would also have to have their own ip and there is too many credentials that would need to be the same for you to get his email. Think about the security HAZARD that would be if people could accidentally receive each others email whether its from gmail or any other service. It has to be some sort of setting that he did which wasn't configured properly (user error most likely). And your sure this isnt some sort of phishing email designed to catch people right?
To tell you the truth ive never heard of this ever happening especially for public mail servers. That is something that would make headline news... Occasionally you might have an issue with internal LAN mail servers if they were setup incorrectly, but even then the chances are slim. |
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Name Game
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The internet is full of posts similar to yours about gmail
»www.webmasterworld.com/forum100/193.htm
Juno.com for mail used to have the same problem.
I can find more threads for you on the subject..
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Name Game
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Here is another..
»www.revolutionwebdesign.com/blog···ng-GMAIL
This is google's official explanation.
Am I receiving someone else's email?
»mail.google.com/support/bin/answ···=bugflow
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Ryan
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Attleboro, MA | reply to Trel
My mistake I thought you were receiving emails from a completely different service. |
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Trel
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I already knew that blah.blah@gmail.com was treated as blahblah@gmail.com
but we have two different names, his is netforceusa and I'm netforce. That'a pretty big difference as far as delivery.
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La Luna
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said by Ryan :I wouldnt say its a gmail issue because your getting his emails. I would have him contact godaddy or have him check his settings. It's already been established from the person using "netforceusa" that GoDaddy has his correct gmail address.
That would leave gmail as the culprit, somehow delivering his email to someone with a similar email address.
Just another reason why I would never use gmail for anything important.
EDIT: oops, I see you realize that now. 
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Ryan
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Attleboro, MA | reply to Trel
I was mistaken i thought he ment the email address was a godaddy address like netusa@godaddy.com |
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Name Game
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said by Trel :I already knew that blah.blah@gmail.com was treated as blahblah@gmail.com but we have two different names, his is netforceusa and I'm netforce. That'a pretty big difference as far as delivery. So ask them at their tech center about it..and let us know what they say.
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nil
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join:2000-11-27 | reply to Trel
Did you look at the headers? Are you absolutely certain the email is being sent to 'netforceusa'?
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Raphion
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Samsara | reply to Trel
hmm... "netforce" is 8 characters, which is a pretty common length limit on older software/email systems. Maybe he's using something older that is truncating off everything after 8 characters, turning "netforceusa" into "netforce". |
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Old Computer
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I already had the same problem two months ago.
I have an old Gmail account with short Username (6 characters), and for a while I received many personals e-mails from another person.
That person told me he was sure that "my ID" belongs to another. I wrote to the Gmail Headquarters and 1 week later they reply to me they have changed the ID of the other customer.
Incredible but true. How can you have 2 identical ID ?
There is no dot on my ID. 
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