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EMAIL

Q.	How can I access my mainville.org email?
A.	There are two ways to access your mainville.org email. If you are logged in to the site, you can read and send email via the web-based email client located at https://www.mainville.org/mail/ Or, you can use an email client on your computer to retrieve your email from the server. Read about email settings here for more information on how to configure your email program.
Q.	Can I use a browser, such as Netscape or Internet Explorer, to read my email? I.e., do I have web access to my email?
A.	Yes. Simply log in to the site and click on the mail link in the top navigation bar.

MY ACCOUNT

Q.	How do I change my account preferences?
A.	You need to log in first. Then just select the my account link in the navigation bar at the top of the page.
Q.	How do I change my account information (such as my name or address)?
A.	You need to log in first. Then just select the my account link in the navigation bar at the top of the page.
Q.	How do I change my password?
A.	You need to log in first. Then just select the my account link in the navigation bar at the top of the page.

FORUMS

Q.	Do I need a mainville.org account to read or post to the forums?
A.	No. Anyone can read the mainville.org forums and anyone can post messages to the mainville.org forums. If it turns out, however, that there are inappropriate posts in the forums then the forums will be changed so that you either need to have a mainville.org account to post or they will become moderated.
Q.	Is my email address visible when I post a message to the forums?
A.	By default, yes. Anyone reading the forums will know your email address. But there are a couple of things you can do at mainville.org to protect your email address and prevent SPAM. One is to ensure you are using a 'mangled' email address when posting to the forums. This makes it more difficult for your email address to be harvested by the automated tools used by some unscrupulous web users. The 'mangle' option will help prevent SPAM and is a default mainville.org setting. A human would recognize that your email address was mangled and would still be able to respond to your forum posts via email. Once you are logged in to mainville.org, you can select the mangle option in 'my account' -> 'preferences'. Another way to protect your email address is to simply not use an email address when posting to the forums; you are not required to do so. Other readers of the forums will not be able to email their responses directly to you, though (but can still post responses to your forum messages).