Email Accounts

Email accounts for members

One of the benefits of membership in the California Barbecue Association is the opportunity to have an email address in the following form:

MemberName@cbbqa.com

This will explain the process for setting up an email account.

Email address

Members may obtain an email address on the cbbqa.com server. The first step is to email the webmaster to request an email. Many excellent email addresses are available with your first name and the first letter of your last name. Alternatively, you may select your own unique address (such as BBQ_Ray@cbbqa.com or DuelingBubbas@cbbqa.com).

Cost and time limit

At the present time, the Association is not charging any additional amount for email addresses on the Association's mail server. This may be changed in the future if, for example, the Association is required to pay additional amounts for its mail server.

There is no time limit for members to continue to use their email addresses, so long as the email address is not misused (for spam, porn, floods, etc.) and so long as the member remains in good standing.

Forward email

Members with an email account have two ways to retrieve their email: forward it or POP3 it.

Forwarding works like this. When an email is sent to the member at MemberName@cbbqa.com, the email will be received by the Association's computer, and then the association's computer will automatically send the email to the member's own email account.

For example, suppose that a member's email address is george@cbbqa.com and that George also has an email account called george@earthlink.net. The forward mail solution means that all mail sent to george@cbbqa.com gets automatically forwarded to george@earthlink.net

This is the solution that most members will elect.

POP3 mail

For advanced computer users, there is a second way to retrieve their email. Rather than having the Association's computer (called a mail server) forward the email to a different mail server, the member may elect simply to use the member's own mail program to retrieve the email directly from the Association's mail server. This is call POP -- "post office protocol" -- and is the preferred method for advanced users.

The following are the settings for members to POP their email:

Incoming POP3 Server: mail.cbbqa.com
User: MemberName (the first part of the email address)
Password: (see below)

Members should use their own ISP's SMTP server for outgoing email.

These settings are configured differently for each mail program but are not difficult for many users. Each member should select his/her own password.