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Using email accounts in small organisations.

We look after the email systems for a number of small / volunteer organisations. And we know that lots of them take the 'easy' option when it comes to setting it all up for use. Which was OK(ish) in the past. But doesn't cut it in today's climate Let me explain by way of an example. Take a fictitious organisation "Grass Growers of Worcester". And let's say they have the domain name grassgrowersworc.org, and their secretary is Fredd Bloggs who has a private email of fredd.bloggs22@talktalk.co.uk The "quick and easy" way to handle this would be to set up the email secretary@grassgrowersworc.org and have it forward all mail to fredd.bloggs22@talktalk.co.uk And, to be sure, that works. The issue here is that Fredd can only send emails as fredd.bloggs22@talktalk.co.uk, so will answer incoming emails from his TalkTalk account. And, in not too long, world+dog will think the correct address for The Secretary is fredd.bloggs22@talktalk.com, and se

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