- Installation and setup
- Contact Management and Synchronization
- Contact Sharing and Permissions
- How can I share my Google Contacts with other users?
- Can I automatically share all my Google contacts at once?
- How can I automatically share contact labels with all members of my organization, so I don’t have to manually share them each time a new employee joins?
- Can I share contacts with users outside my Google domain?
- Can I share contacts with users with a free Gmail account?
- Can I share my “Other contacts” folder from Google using Shared Contacts Manager?
- Can I share a label with a domain user group email (e.g., marketing@mydomain.com)?
- Can I reshare a contact list that was initially shared with me?
- Can invited users edit my shared contacts?
- Where can invited users see the contacts I share with them?
- How can I unshare contacts after sharing them?
- What happens if you share contacts directly with someone who is already in a group that has access to those contacts?
- What access permissions can I give to users I invite to the shared label?
- Do dots in email addresses affect the contact-sharing process?
- Licensing and Payments
- Privacy and Security
- Other questions
Do dots in email addresses affect the contact-sharing process?
In free Gmail accounts designed for personal use, dots in email addresses don’t matter. Whether someone adds dots to your address or not, you’ll still receive the email. For example, if your email is johndoe@gmail.com, messages sent to john.doe@gmail.com or j.o.h.n.doe@gmail.com will all reach the same inbox. So, dots don’t impact contact sharing in any way.
However, if you’re a Google Workspace user and your email belongs to a domain, like “johndoe@mydomain.com,” the dots do matter. In this case, dots are recognized as part of the address. For example, “john.doe@mydomain.com” and “johndoe@mydomain.com” would be treated as two separate email addresses. This means that dots can affect both email delivery and contact sharing within domain-based accounts. To modify the dots in your domain email, you’d need to contact your administrator.