Q.	What type of mail server is mainville.org running?
A.	The mail server is a POP-3 server (Post-Office Protocol).
Q.	What email program can I use?
A.	Any email program that supports POP can be used. All of the most popular will work: Eudora, Netscape Mail, and Outlook and Outlook Express.
Q.	What is my member name/username?
A.	When you registered, you selected your member name and password. (Your member name and your username are the same.) If you can't remember your member name, please contact us. When configuring your email program, you may need to specify a username of membername%mainville.org (instead of membername@mainville.org).
Q.	What is my password?
A.	When you registered, you selected your member name and password and you had to confirm the registration. If you don't remember what your password is, you can find out here.
Q.	What kind of password is it?
A.	Your password is a standard POP password.
Q.	What is the hostname of the POP-3 server (the mail host)?
A.	A POP server is the system you connect to when you want to *retrieve* mail that others have sent to you. The name of the POP server is pop.mainville.org
Q.	What is the hostname of the SMTP server?
A.	An SMTP server is the system you connect to when you want to *send* mail to others. In the interest of security and privacy, mainville.org does not provide an SMTP server to its members. This decision is based on the assumption that you probably already have an email account through your internet service provider (ISP) and so you probably have access to your ISP's SMTP server. You can use that SMTP server to send email. Of course, when you send mail through your ISP's SMTP server it may not allow you to send mail with a return address of @mainville.org. In that case we will make the mainville.org SMTP server available to you. Requests to use the mainville.org SMTP server will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Contact us if you need to use our SMTP server.