(Astroturfing & spam filters can take into account that and is the same person. Tip: Remember to check for the p in front of the key. To let technical people create many accounts using the same Gmail addr (for testing purposes), you can choose to consider a different address. I would think that for non-technical people, ignoring dots in Gmail addresses is the user friendly approach. S/he then wonders: "Where is all my old stuff? That I created before with this account? I logged in with the same email address!" Now, the app thinks the addresses are different, and auto-creates a new account for the user. in some cases, people accidentally manually typed their addresses with no dots, or with dots, or different dots, when they typed by hand (well, keyboard) previously. Now people with a gmail address, click that button to sign in. Later, the web app configures OpenAuth and a Sign in with Gmail button. So people type their addresses manually, to sign up with local email + password accounts. Let's say, a web app has recently been installed, and not yet configured to work with Gmail OpenAuth. However a good reason can be to prevent users from accidentally creating different accounts. Maybe, like the others here say, that is not a good reason to ignore periods. "I want to prevent users from creating multiple accounts" "Don't forget to open source your work :p"Īccording to this SO question Adding + text before the in an email, you may block use of + sign the whole problem of yours and mine will get solved.
#IMAIL INFRONT COM MANUALS#
You can read manuals of other known services also and implement according to them. if you find it unique or unused then let the user to register.
Then compare the address in your existing user table, var eml_exp = it's a gmail address, then remove periods from local part and also anything So I can have an application-specific regex like this. I came to the conclusion that a majority of users use services offered by Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo. DOTS DON’T MATTER IN: Gmail, Facebook ID.DOTS MATTER IN: Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo Mail, Apple iCloud ID.After researching on the web and checking a few things, I found that: Over the last few days, I encountered the same problem.
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