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 [email protected], messages sent to [email protected] or [email protected] 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 “[email protected],” the dots do matter. In this case, dots are recognized as part of the address. For example, “[email protected]” and “[email protected]” 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.