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'This Gmail user does not exist...'

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This error usually occurs when there are typos in the recipient's email address. Some common errors include the following:

  • Quotation marks: <'username@gmail.com'> or <"username@gmail.com">
  • Dots at the end of the address: <username@gmail.com.>
  • Spaces before or after an address: < username@gmail.com>, <username@gmail.com >

If you're sure there are no mistakes, the Gmail address may have been disabled, deleted, or never existed in the first place.

updated 8/19/2009

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