I'm an old Gmail user from 2004 and I've always been curious about it.
Registering john.doe@gmail.com
as a new Gmail account, is doe.john@gmail
automatically reserved?
If I try to send a mail to doe.john@gmail
, the mail does not arrive to me and I don't get any Mail Delivery Subsystem warning so it seems the address is alive in some way.
Best Answer
If you registered the account
john.doe@gmail.com
then you aren't going to get emails addressed todoe.john@gmail.com
as that would be a totally different account.I tested this with my own Gmail account and I get bounce back saying the account doesn't exist. You probably didn't get a bounce back because the account (
doe.john@gmail.com
) does exist - it must have been registered by someone else.