Should we change email systems?

The current one is less than great and barely usable.  Do we even need an email address for every board member or can we trim it back to a single board@ email address that captures all mail sent through it and sends to people on a configurable list.

We should be able to move all the mail from the prior gmail addresses to this new one as well.

Current Email Accounts: 

  • board@hartsfieldvillage3.org
  • MemberAtLarge@hartsfieldvillage3.org
  • president@hartsfieldvillage3.org
  • secretary@hartsfieldvillage3.org
  • treasurer@hartsfieldvillage3.org
  • vicepresident@hartsfieldvillage3.org
  • webadministrator@hartsfieldvillage3.org

Gmail accounts: 

  • webcommunicationshv3@gmail.com
  • Board.Hartsfieldvillage@gmail.com
  • boardhv3@gmail.com
  • webcommunicationshv3@gmail.com
  • presidenthv3@gmail.com
  • vicepresidenthv3@gmail.com
  • secretaryhv3@gmail.com
  • vpresident.hartsfieldvillage@gmail.com

Checklist:

  • merge all directories into the “board” email account
  • merge all “sent” directories
  • check for weirdness.
  • merge content from the gmail account
  • remove board addresses from the “board@hartsfieldvillage.org” account forwarding and add the personal emails for the people that are on the board.
  • Make website post announcing the change.

3 thoughts on “Should we change email systems?”

  1. The instructions that our current provider were incorrect for IMAP, I reached out to them last week and they got back to me today with the correct method of connecting via IMAP. I’m currently transferring all the emails from the @hartsfieldvillage3.org addresses into the board@hartsfieldvillage3.org account.

    This is going to take several days of effort, there are thousands of messages to back up.

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