Sendin­g an email to johnsm­ [email protected] or [email protected] goes to the same userThere’s always been a lot of emphasis placed on getting the exact email right. Most email addresses have a period (.) For example, if you own the email address [email protected] and someone happens to add a dot while sending an email to this address, you will still receive it. It works the other way round too, for example, if you own the email [email protected], all emails sent to the account [email protected] will come to your email inbox. For example, you could provide spammers with this version of your email address: [email protected] or [email protected] and manually sort out emails sent to these addresses in a separate folder.

Source: The Express Tribune February 22, 2018 15:33 UTC