Sometimes you may receive a message sent to an address that looks like yours but has a different number or arrangement of periods. Email sent to all of these email addresses will go to your original Gmail account, that is: is what google has to say about this:. Suppose, you have your Gmail account as: Gmail, you can also use it as: or or doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames. You can use multiple email addresses with your single Gmail account. Facebook Tweet LinkedIn Pin Print Email Shares