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Bahá'í Communications
International
5712 Deerfoot Trail
Fort Worth, TX 76131
USA
Copyright © 1996-2005 by BCI. BCI is sponsored by the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Fort Worth, Texas.
Managing your email
Your email address is of the form username@bci.org (your username defines your email address) unless you have a domain name in which case it would be username@yourdomain.org.
To use BCI's email system, you will probably want to configure your email client program (such as Eudora or Outlook) so that you can retrieve messages stored on the BCI server. You can add a new "account" to your mail client so that messages are retrieved from all of your email accounts at the same time.
Here are the settings you need:
- Outgoing mail server (SMTP): Use your existing ISP's SMTP server (you may have to supply your own username and password for this to work)
- Incoming mail (POP3): Use mail.bci.org
- Username and password: These were provided during registration and are the same as your FTP settings.
You probably also have the option of setting a name and email address which shows up in the headers of messages you send. You can customize these as appropriate, such as "Mytown Bahai Assembly".
If you want to have your mail automatically forwarded to one or more different email accounts, you can create a simple text file named ".forward" containing the forwarding addresses. After each address, add a carriage return.
Upload your ".forward" file to your home directory using ftp. Note that the "." means that this will be a hidden file which will not normally be viewable in directory listings. If you currently have a .forward account but want to retrieve your messages from the BCI server, you can delete the ".forward" file at any time.
In addition to your BCI email account, BCI can set up email "aliases". These are not true mailboxes, but are valid email addresses which you can use for forwarding mail elsewhere. For example, you could set up an alias of "mycommittee@bci.org" which forwards all messages to "myaccount@myisp.com" or "myusername@bci.org". Aliases can forward to more than one person, so "mycommitteemembers@bci.org" could forward to each member of the committee.