[Nottingham] Complicated maybe impossible e-mail

stripes theotoky stripes.theotoky at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 2 14:45:10 UTC 2015


Dear Group,

I am currently in Greece doing some volunteer work and have been asked to
sort out e-mail by one of the villages. They saw I run Linux onthe laptop
and assume I am a great computer guru because of it. How wrong they are.

However the problem is this:

They have an e-mail address info at somegreekvillage.eu
This address is important and cannot be changed.

E-mail sent to that address must be forwarded to 10 of the village members
on their personal e-mail addresses.

The e-mail will be answered and the answers will be sent from the info
address.

Somehow apparently by magic the reply will get from the personal email to
the info mailserver and be sent on from there and every one of the 10 will
know what has been written and will be able to pick up the thread of
conversation if anyone bothers to write to them a second time.

Problems:-

1). I don't see how to do it.
2). Everyone of the locals accesses their e-mail differently using
addresses at gmail, yandex.com, yahoo.com and otenet.gr accessing it via,
webmail, IMAP and POP3.
3). Seems to be no version control in here so nothing stopping 2 or more
people answering the same e-mail at the same time.

It seems to me that what they need is simple webmail which doesn't allow
concurrent logins to which all 10 of them have the username and password.
The trouble seems to be that this would be simple and work but would leave
open the possiblity that someone could log in and never log out keeping the
other 9 in the dark as to what was going on.

Is it even possible to do it they way they want it done?

Stripes
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