Quick question: If I accidently sent an email to hotmail.com, instead of hotmail.co.uk, would it go to the same email account?

[punchandjudy]

I accidently sent an important email to someone with a hotmail.co.uk account using hotmail.com by mistake. I haven't had a reply yet and wondering if the different ending makes a difference? Would they have got it anyway?

Thank you !!

Of course they wouldn't! It is two different addresses. You need to send it again to the right one.

No.

MIL always sends emails to me ending .com but my address is .co.uk. They never reach me.

Oh thought because it was hotmail it wouldn't make a difference!

Thank you everyone, have resent it now

FabIsDoingPrettyWell - Of course they wouldn't! It is two different addresses.

While that's true for the bulk of services, there may be instances where it would not cause problems (and "of course they wouldn't" would be incorrect).

UK users generally get googlemail.com if they have a GMail account (rather than gmail.com) but Google made their service work so either will work.

I suspect they chose to use googlemail.com (and perhaps registered googlemail.co.uk for completeness, in case someone typed it) as gmail.co.uk had been registered years ago, and rather than have wrongly addressed mail bombard gmail.co.uk they might have decided that googlemail.com was a good alternative for them.

> Of course they wouldn't! It is two different addresses.

You say it's obvious because they're two different addresses, but nothing in the e-mail RFCs prevent such a thing. In fact, e-mail address forwarding is quite normal. Services like https://addy.com and Mozilla and ProtonMail's offerings provide this quite easily. I consequently don't believe that it was unreasonable of a thing to expect.

Did you bump a 13yr old thread just to advertise a product?

> Did you bump a 13yr old thread just to advertise a product?

No.