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"But I need those emails to the other person to stop"

The dot is a distraction in this case. He is passing out your email address, thinking it is his. When he does this, you get emails intended for him. This is not a technical problem, and doesn't really have a technical solution.

Although you could set up a filter on the "to" field to erase all the mis-addressed emails, I just looked at the gmail filters and I didn't see any way to autoreply to them, but at least you don't have to see them ... technical semi-solution.

Fwd those email to another email and set up auto reply there. Problem solved =).

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