On 9/7/2018 11:50 PM, Ralph Fox wrote:
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 22:55:01 -0700, cameo wrote:

One thing I still wonder about is that in some implementations I see
googlemail.com instead of gmail.com but they both seem to work. Are
those two names just pointing to the same servers?


They are effectively the same in *most* countries.

When Google first set up Gmail, the name "Gmail" was already owned by
various other parties in several countries. So Google had to use the
name "googlemail" in those countries (UK, Germany, Poland, Russia).

Google has since came to an arrangement with the original owners of the
name in UK (2009) and Germany (2012).

Thanks for that interesting bit of history. I've never heard it before.