And this is a problem I constantly run into with web services, some throw an error if I use a ., others throw an error if I try to do something like example+note@example.com.
I use one or the other to help sort emails.
It's even worse when a sign up form accepts an email in the latter format, but the login form does not for some reason. So I have an account with a note added but I cannot login. I had this problem with the Odeon website for a while, eventually had to phone them up and ask them to change my accounts email address to one without a note.
Gmail allows users to enter an arbitrary number of dots .
Therefore these are a valid email addresses :
your......name@gmail.com y.o.u.r...name....@gmail.com
and all resolve to yourname@gmail.com
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=m...