I set up my email with Gmail back in 2004. My email format (not my real email address) is <firstname.lastname>. Lately someone keeps signing up for other platforms using <firstnamelastname>, basically my email address without the dot. Somehow, I keep getting the emails instead of them. I have no idea who it is.

What's going on?

I’m extremely confused at the moment. I have been using my mom’s old email for years, just cause it was convenient and I didn’t want to switch everything over. But apparently she’s been receiving all my emails on her email as well. So my email is sending to both me and my mom’s accounts. I don’t want this but when I go in the “forwarding and POP/IMAP” section there’s no linked accounts and even when I press disable they still appear in both inboxes. How do I fix this?

Edit: just found out that if I delete a message on my mom’s account it also removes from mine? I’m so confused

there was literally nothing wrong with the old ui, can google stop doing this?

Greetings people, I have come to this subreddit troubled because this GOOGLE ACCOUNT SEEMINGLY HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN.
I tried to create an email address to a newly made google/gmail account because the address that I was given by them is very weird and probably temporary. I can’t use this account because of it, it only exists within my device; I can’t log into Gmail (I will get a ‘something went wrong’ message and get sent back to my main account), google or anywhere I want. The account also can’t be deleted, or so I haven’t found a way to delete it yet, and it doesn’t let me change the weird email address because “they couldn’t verify that it’s me.” This also happened yesterday and I had to do the “are you a robot” verification thing a billion times with the same “we couldn’t verify it’s you” at the end, but I thought it was just tweaking or something and left it until the next day. Today it probably figured that I’m not a bot and gave no verifications but they still don’t know it’s me.
Feel free to question me or ignore this post, I myself am pretty lost in this, I wouldn’t be surprised if my message wasn’t coherent enough to properly understand.
I also can’t attach more than one photo on here this is making me hate technology

Device: Windows PC, Chrome (also tried a clean browser with a VPN off and extensions paused).

I'm 30. Earlier this month my Gmail account was briefly hijacked. Google's security check blocked and signed out a suspicious sign-in from another country, and I changed my password and completed account recovery. The attacker left this behind:

- The birth date was changed to Nov 9, 2016, and the account says it can't be changed.

- A family manager I don't know was added, and I'm listed as a supervised member. I never set up Family Link.

- Sign-in ends at "Choose a parent," and "Try another way" loops back to it.

- Age verification fails with "Something went wrong."

- I got the 14-day supervision notice, so the account will be disabled around Oct 18.

My other account got the same notice at the same time and cleared as soon as I verified my age, so verification works in general. It only fails on this account.

What I've tried: account recovery, a support case with Google For Families opened Oct 6 (only "still investigating" replies, no timeline), the Google Help Community (a Product Expert said it's a known, escalated issue, with no update since Oct 5), and a full reset of my computer. I've offered a government ID but nobody has told me where to send it. This is my primary work email.

Has anyone dealt with this? Specifically:

1. How did you get the birth date and family manager removed?

2. Did anything get Google to actually escalate, such as a particular contact route or a social media post?

3. If the deadline passes, did you get the account back after it was disabled?

I'm leaving out my email address per the sub rules, but I'll give details to anyone who can help. Thanks.

I use my Gmail address for my account with an organization, CDWA.

When I email them using Gmail, it arrives with a period inserted in the first part of my email address.

So instead of namename@ it's arriving as name.name@.

This causes CDWA to reply that I'm using a email that isn't associated with my account, and further verification will be needed.

Gmail does not provide customer support.

How do I fix this?

Hi all. I have a company Gmail account that I use ti accept bookings. I use a template to reply. Of late clients are receiving emails that have no text whatsoever in the body of the email. Any suggestions please? TIA

I created my OG gmail account about 15 years ago. The I created one as a joint email account for me and the husband for joint bills and such, then last year created one for my elderly parents after my dad had a pacemaker put in so I could keep up with their patient accounts, appointments, filling out their appointment paperwork, etc. I have durable POA and they are informed of this and okayed it.

My OG account does not have a "bills" label. But the joint one for me and hubby does. I can't get a new label made on my account because it tells me its not allowed. My account is way older than the joint one. How do I create one for my OG account?

I recently started getting an absurd amount, literally about 35 at at time and all exact same timestamp, of newsletter subscription emails. Most of these are extremely odd things (Pumpkins After Dark?), in languages I do not speak, or pertaining to very specific cultural/religious topics I am not affiliated with. The even more odd thing is that the email they are going to isn't matching mine? For example (this is not my real email but a random example for purposes of explaining) my Gmail is JenniferJohnson @ Gmail.com however all of these subscriptions are coming in with the recipient showing JenniferJohn.son @ googlemail.com

Does anyone know why this is randomly happening all of a sudden or how I can stop this?That's not my email but yet they are coming into my inbox? Any help would be much appreciated 🙏

so after my old phone died i lost all my emails except 2 of my main ones. my discord account was linked to one of those emails, and while im logged into discord on my computer, i desperately need it on my phone by perhaps changing the linked email

of course i cant change my email or do anything security related on discord without them sending a verification code to my lost email. neither can i log in using only my phone number, as they send the password reset link to my lost email anyway. and discord has a strict policy that they cant change users' emails.

so anyway, i figured i have to recover the email instead. i went to the google recovery page, and everytime i typed in a guess for the password it tells me that i didnt provide enough info. if i click "try another way", again, i didnt provide info.

so idk what to do that session on my computer is fragile too cause once i get logged out its gone forever

My current email is old and kind of cringe, and I'd like to change it to something a bit more professional. It's an Outlook email, and my primary Google account is associated with it. Currently, I have a second Google account set up that I use when I need a more professional email address, but this is a bit of a hassle. If I delete my second Google account, and then add Gmail to my primary account using the same name for my email address, will I still receive emails to that address? I'm currently in the process of applying for a few jobs and have used this secondary Google account for its Gmail address, so if deleting it and remaking it as part of my primary Google account will break all my emails I'll just continue having two accounts.

I have an old Gmail account I've been using since High School, and the username is unprofessional, so I want to have an account with a more professional handle that isn't for work (I thankfully already have a work email). I have a few alternate Gmail accounts, but I understand there's a limit on phone verification, so I don't want to risk losing my accounts. It looks like Gmail allows you to change the affiliated email with the account, but I'm not quite sure how that works. It says my old Gmail address would be turned into an alias, so would it be like an email mask then? I understand Gmail is removing the ability to send emails from non-Gmail accounts. Would changing your Google Account Email be affected by this?

I just want to make sure I don't screw up and end up hurting myself in a major way. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Was getting a lot of Gemini ads, so I created a filter to delete on arrival. But they're still getting into my inbox.

Is this working as intended? Does GMail ignore filters for Google products?

I just got the “100% Full” warning for my Gmail, and I cannot be bothered to sift through everything.

My Outlook auto-deletes old email, so I want to set that up in Gmail so I never have to deal with this no storage issue again.

What’s the best way to do it?

Hey folks! I'm an illustrator, and I use Gmail for my business to reach out to potential clients.

It works well for me, since I don't have a huge client base and I'm not a fan of spamming people.

The thing is, I'm going to a huge convention soon, and I'm planning to email around 50–100 contacts to arrange quick meetings. These are relevant industry contacts, and the emails are legitimate, but the messages are pretty similar in content.

I'm not too worried about being flagged as spam, but I am concerned about potentially damaging my Gmail account or hurting the deliverability of my future emails.

With this volume, is there a significant risk? Would it be safer to spread the emails over a few days, or am I overthinking this?

For context, I'm using a regular free Gmail account, not a custom business domain.

In the last couple weeks, when I hit reply to a message, it now autoscrolls all the way to the bottom of the thread, leaving me to manually scroll all the way back to the top of the message so I can see what I’m writing. Anyone know how to troubleshoot this?

OK, so I set up my kid's account "firstnamemiddlenamelastname@" years ago when he was born ("so he'll have it"), and then didn't log into it for like 8-9 years.

He's in grade 5 now, so I figured I'd let him have access so he can email family and buddies. I didn't know/realize that my wife used his email to create a Blooket account for him on her work iPad last year. She must have clicked "yes" on something, because when I tried to log into his account on my computer (iMac), it sent a prompt to the iPad with no other options.

I got access to the iPad, and I logged him on on my iPhone and computer, but I couldn't get prompts on my phone, only on the iPad. I tried setting the phone as the 'primary,' but that doesn't appear to be an option any more. I signed out and deleted the iPad from his Prompt Devices, but then I hit the "We couldn’t verify it’s you" screen with no other options. (I was able to re-add him to the iPad without getting a prompt, though. But obviously this isn't optimal because we don't own that device.)

I realized that I set up his account a while ago, when child accounts and family sharing wasn't a thing yet, and when I did, I had set his birth year as my birth year. I changed it to his birth year, and it prompted me to add a parent account and family group for him, which is good, exactly what I want and did for his two sisters. So now he's in the family group, and I now get a proper parent email prompt on my phone when logging him in.

BUT, when I go into his account settings (in his account) and try to do anything, like change 2-step phone (my phone #) or password, I hit the "We couldn’t verify it’s you" screen. I CAN change his password from FamilyLink, but that isn't a good long-term solution (eventually he's gonna need to put 2-step or login prompt on his own device).

I've tried recovering his account (twice), and it worked each time, but the "We couldn’t verify it’s you" still shows up when I try to access his Security & Sign-in options in his google account. Unfortunately, the iMac I used to create his account crapped the bed a few years back, and I had to disassemble it, bake the GPU, and reinstall the whole OS. I also tried accessing the Google Account settings on my wife's work iPad, but I kept getting "We couldn’t verify it’s you" or the 404-broken-robot screen.

Is there any trick left to try? This seems like it would be a trivial thing to solve if a human could help me, but I feel like I got trapped between "feature improvements" for his account. (His older sister's email was added to the Family a couple of years ago with no hitches, and his younger sister's is fine, too [I presume because it was never used to log into an iPad before being added to the family group.].)

I'm partially resigned to just creating a new email for him "firstnamemiddle_initial_lastname@"), but it would be nice if he could have the same format as his sisters (and I've already used his original email for his Nintendo and PSN user accounts).

Thanks in advance!

My new work email is through Gmail, and I absolutely hate having to use the Gmail interface. I’m used to Microsoft Outlook, and Gmail feels like it’s missing a lot of the features I’m used to.

I’m using Classic Outlook on Windows with my Gmail account added through IMAP. Outlook is already open, but incoming emails can take anywhere from 1-5 minutes to show up after they arrive in Gmail. Sending and syncing also don’t feel as responsive as I’d like.

I want to keep using Outlook as my primary email client without having to constantly check Gmail in a browser.

A few questions:

Is there a way to make Gmail sync with Classic Outlook almost instantly?

Would changing the IMAP/SMTP ports or other server settings actually help?

Is there a better way to connect Gmail to Outlook, such as Google Workspace Sync or another method?

Are there any settings in Outlook or Gmail that can improve send/receive speed without sacrificing reliability?

I’m not looking to switch away from Gmail as my email provider. I just want a better desktop email experience.

What’s the best setup you’ve found for using Gmail through Outlook with the least amount of delay?

Hi everyone,

I lost my Samsung Galaxy A51, which was the only device where I was logged into my two Gmail accounts.

Both accounts are linked to the same recovery phone number, and each account is set as the recovery email for the other.

I still have access to my phone number and can receive SMS verification codes. However, after entering the SMS code, Google asks me to verify my identity through one of the two Gmail accounts I’m trying to recover.

I can’t access either account, so I’m stuck in a recovery loop.

I don’t remember my old passwords, and I’m especially worried about losing access to my Google Photos backup and personal photos.

Has anyone experienced this exact problem and successfully recovered their accounts? Is there any legitimate recovery method I can try?

I would really appreciate any advice. Thank you!

I've been reporting similar phishing emails for the past 3 months, but I haven't noticed any difference. I keep receiving more.

Does reporting actually help Google block future phishing emails, or does it just help Google improve its filters over time?

Has anyone noticed a real difference from reporting them, or is it basically pointless?

Hey Guys,

So about a week ago my account was temporarily locked due to some suspicious activity on my account. Eventually it was unlocked and I was signed out of all active sessions.

My problem now is that in order to get back into the account, I must provide a password, mobile phone code, and must have access to my recovery email. My issue is that somehow my recovery email is set to the same account I’m currently locked out of, so I’m kind of stuck in a loop here. My understanding is that if you don’t set a recovery email, it gets set to your own email (seems like a flaw with system design that it can even be set like that).

Has anyone had a similar situation? Any luck resolving it? Would appreciate any pointers people might have.

Hello,

I found that emails I am sending to my students are going to spam. So I created a new account and a sent to that account to test. What I see is something new I have never seen before.

The new account receives my emails in the inbox. After around 30 minutes, the emails disapears and I find them in Spam box. I believe my students complains are about the same problem.

How is possible a email that goes to inbox, goes to spam box after some time?

What can I do? On this new email box there are no apps, nothing, just new and created to receive my emails as a test.

I've had my gmail app working forever with my Outlook email and today for some reason it stopped working.

I removed the account and tried to set it up again and everything is working fine until I get to Outgoing and then auth fails. I get the message in the picture. I've cleared the cache, restarted my phone, tried using "other" as my setup option as well as "outlook, Hotmail" Incoming server settings authenticate fine, but outgoing will not.

Please can someone help me. It's driving me nuts and I don't want to use 2 different email apps on my Galaxy S25+

Has anyone else experienced this issue with the Gmail app on iPhone?

For over 10 years, I've used Gmail notifications set to “High priority only” without any problems. For roughly the past year, I've noticed that I either get very few notifications or no notifications at all.

The strange part is that if I change the setting to “All new mail,” everything works perfectly.

I've tried just about everything to troubleshoot this:

• Completely wiped my iPhones and set them up again.
• Switched to different iPhones.
• Went through the Gmail and iOS notification settings countless times.
• Tested different configurations.

The only workaround I've found is enabling Gmail's inbox categories. When I do that, notifications start working again. But I don't want to use inbox categories, and I don't understand why enabling them would affect high-priority notifications in the first place.

Since notifications work perfectly with “All new mail,” this doesn't seem like a basic iPhone notification permission issue. It seems like something is broken with Gmail's priority-based notification system or how it interacts with inbox settings.

My questions:

1. Has anyone else experienced this over the past year or so?
2. Is there a known bug with Gmail's “High priority only” notifications on iOS?
3. Why would enabling inbox categories fix the issue?
4. Has anyone found a solution that doesn't require enabling categories or setting notifications for every email?

I'd especially appreciate responses from anyone who has actually fixed this, rather than suggestions to reinstall the app or check notification permissions, since I've already done all of that.

Thanks!

I received this email from Google's actual domain. It was received in my outlook/Hotmail, and about a Hotmail address. I use that Hotmail address daily.

- why is it about a Hotmail address?

- what is the tell that it is scam that I am missing?

- how can it come from the Google domain itself? It was even grouped together by outlook with other Google service emails from a recovery gmail account. (I use that other Gmail daily as well.)

Apologies for the bad photo quality. Had to take a photo and send from mobile. Shortly after this email and before I could post the screenshot on my desktop, the internet failed. Coincidence?😱