CALLSIGN EMAIL ADDRESS AT RAC
Last updated 15 December 1998
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CALLSIGN EMAIL ADDRESS AT RACLast updated 15 December 1998 |
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This is a reprint of RAC's Bulletin 98 - 04E
Subject: Bulletin 98-04E From: Ken Pulfer, VE3PU Date: 1998 01 06 Subject: Callsign e-mail addresses for all interested Canadian Amateurs ==================================================================== This Bulletin is being sent to you because you subscribed to the RAC email robot. For more information about the robot, please visit http://www.rac.ca/~racnews/othernotices/racbullemail.htm ===================================================================== Any licensed Canadian amateur radio operator can now have an e-mail address of the form "callsign@rac.ca". This means that you will no longer have to advise all your contacts of any new e-mail address if you change your internet service provider. Canadian amateurs will not have to keep track of dozens or hundreds of e-mail addresses. Just remembering the callsign is all they will need. RAC is able to offer this free service thanks to the volunteer help and support of Information Gateway Services (IGS) of Kanata Ontario, and in particular the work of Rene Kahle VA3RDK. Rene developed the E-mail aliasing software, and set up the server hardware (IGS also donates server space for the RAC and ARAS web sites that contain much useful information for Canadian amateurs). If you wish to obtain a callsign e-mail address, simply send a message to "alias@rac.ca" with "callsign=realaddress" in the body of the message. For example, if my callsign were VA4KP and my real (current) email address were "ham@qsy.ca" , I would send a message to "alias@rac.ca" with the following in the body of the message: " VA4KP = ham@qsy.ca" Any subsequent mail addressed to "VA4KP@rac.ca" would be redirected by the IGS server to "ham@qsy.ca" . Of course it goes without saying that such mail would NOT go anywhere near RAC headquarters nor be seen by RAC officials. And of course any mail addressed directly to "ham@qsy.ca" will also be delivered as in the past without passing through the IGS server. To obtain more details, send a message to "alias@rac.ca" with the word "help" on a single line in the body of the message. The e-mail aliasing service is currently set up on a trial basis. If it works well and amateurs find it useful, it will remain available for all who wish to use it. End of reprint To update your mail redirection after you have set up your call, ie, your address is youremail@old_isp and now you have changed servers. Send a message to "alias@rac.ca" with
"change yourcall=yourNEWemial@new_isp" ie: on a single line in the body of the message.
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