Major security flaw with Gmail

[535dman]

I have recently been recieving other peoples emails and at the top where it says my email address it says "yes this is you" when I click on that it takes me to this page:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

What is happening is that I own the email address (e.g) [e-mail] but any mails sent to [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail] all come to me!!!

So anyone wanting to register the other email addresses can but their emails will come to me!

How weird is that - go have a play - its quite shocking!

[tom g]

but can someone else register those addresses....
I would think not

[535dman]

It seems as though they have changed things recently - up until a few days back you could register the other email add's....I've not tried myself but searching the net brings up a few posts about this..

[uriel]

It's always been that way. There was a big fuss made about it a year or more ago.

ETA: Was actually almost 3 years ago! How time flies... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060120-6022...

Edited by uriel on Friday 24th October 14:46

[MrVelox]

What about [e-mail] ?

[535dman]

[Spokey]

MrVelox said:

What about [e-mail] ?

Blimey, is that still running?

[ALawson]

Spokey said:

MrVelox said:

What about [e-mail] ?

Blimey, is that still running?

No the turbos have failed.