Can two people have the same email address?

[User]

 

[Cycling Dan]

Yahoo mail gives you an option to add emails form addresses into the spam folder automatically. No idea how you do it. In settings somewhere.

 

[vickster]

.com vs .co.uk?

Block her?

 

[Archie_tect]

she or someone in her chain of messages has typed in your address.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

First time I've ever seen an estate agent described as genuine.

 

[summerdays]

Probably them just noting down the details incorrectly.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Probably them just noting down the details incorrectly.

Which is a worrying characteristic for a real estate agent. I hope she doesn't get street addresses wrong also.

 

[Octet]

No, it is an impossibility.

abc@xyz.com is one email address, no one else can have that. What they can have however is abc@xyz.co.uk, abc@123.com or any other variation however they cannot have the same one.

When an email is sent, DNS looks up the domain for the server (xyz.com) and then the mail server takes over. In short, the mail server sends it to the user which in this case would be abc.

It is the same as a postman delivering a letter (in fact, one of the email protocols is actually called the 'Post Office Protocol'), letters addressed to Mr/Mrs abc at XYZ on 123 Road shall always go to that recipient, they won't go to someone else (unless you're called victor).

 

[Octet]

Probably them just noting down the details incorrectly.

Which is a worrying characteristic for a real estate agent. I hope she doesn't get street addresses wrong also.

I had to phone up our telecoms company to resolve a broadband issue. We had two different phone lines in the house, both supplied by the company, one of which was for the broadband which again was supplied by the same company.

Understandably they phoned the number they had for the broadband service (as it was a broadband issue) however we quickly asked them to use the other number. In all fifteen of their phone calls and each time us telling them to use the other number (each time them telling us they would make a note on file) they didn't.

I wouldn't be shocked by anything, even if it is their job!

 

[Davidc]

Report the estate agent as a spam generator.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

No, it is an impossibility.

abc@xyz.com is one email address, no one else can have that. What they can have however is abc@xyz.co.uk, abc@123.com or any other variation however they cannot have the same one.

When an email is sent, DNS looks up the domain for the server (xyz.com) and then the mail server takes over. In short, the mail server sends it to the user which in this case would be abc.

It is the same as a postman delivering a letter (in fact, one of the email protocols is actually called the 'Post Office Protocol'), letters addressed to Mr/Mrs abc at XYZ on 123 Road shall always go to that recipient, they won't go to someone else.

I guess Royal Mail's more reliable than Australia Post, then. I sometimes get mail for people living nearby, which makes me wonder how much mail I've missed out on.

 

[Octet]

I guess Royal Mail's more reliable than Australia Post, then. I sometimes get mail for people living nearby, which makes me wonder how much mail I've missed out on.

Fixed my post for you!

 

[Andy_R]

Um...it could be possible if it's been set up to be treated as an alias (don't know if yahoo has this facility, but gmail does)

 

[Octet]

Um...it could be possible if it's been set up to be treated as an alias (don't know if yahoo has this facility, but gmail does)

But in this case it wouldn't make any sense.

When Paul asked to stop being emailed, the estate agent would of known if the address she had been sending messages to was different to what User had asked to be removed.

 

[stowie]

I guess Royal Mail's more reliable than Australia Post, then. I sometimes get mail for people living nearby, which makes me wonder how much mail I've missed out on.

I wouldn't bet on it. I remember an instance of getting a Christmas card at around Easter time. It was addressed to someone living in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I am in NE London. Not one part of the address matched, not the number of the house, road name, and not one letter of the postcode was correct. I reposted it in the hope that the intended recipient may receive it by next Christmas. I also used to get my neighbour's post on a regular basis when a temp worker did our street once a week. He seemed to be one house number out down the entire street. Which is OK (gets us to make friends with our neighbours) except my post was going to an empty house whose owner would give me my mail when he visited once every couple of months.

Our postman is a star now though. And the other postwoman we used to have was excellent.