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Questions & Answers

1. Why would I want your services?

To properly answer this question, it must be broken down into several components. Lets start with:

a) It is secure - RVMail.net uses and accepts SSL Secure Server settings. A "secure" email has been encrypted, thus protecting the contents. AT&T charges $4.95 per month for this service. Ours is $25.00 per year.

b) You have a computer and use it in your RV - Most RV owners are RV enthusiasts and like "branding" their RV life style. By having an email RV address it clearly reveals their RV "personality" (explained below). Also, RVers getting and sending E-mail away from home can be the "pits." The solution is often using webmail. But most webmail has few features and/or use advertising to make them free. Plus, most are not "secure." But there is a better way; RVMail.net. 99.99% up time because it is on private servers, not your I.S.P. and "secure." Anti-virus, spam, and adware protection, are included. Plus, it is the only e-mail gateway needed home and away. Log-in is this URL entry in any Internet connected browser world-wide; mail.rvmail.net.

c) You have a computer but it's not in your RV -  This person can retrieve email by use of "RVMail.net". As more computer terminals find their way into public places, libraries, banks, airline terminals, RVMail becomes convenient and easy to use.  

d) You don't own a computer - Well, statements a & b above also apply well here. Under this condition, one's children or friends can retrieve the RVer's email. Also, RVMail.netl can be retrieved by an RV Forwarding service and included with the RVer's regular "snail mail" forwarded to them.

2. What is an email personality?

That's the "front" part of your email address. Like, frontpart@RVMail.net. Use can use what you choose, if available.

3. Why have several email personalities?

It's the real world. When the United States postal service picks up your mail, it may include a letter to a friend on your personal stationery (your personal personality), or it may include a charity letter you wrote as a volunteer on charity stationery (your charity personality), or perhaps a letter about a business matter on your business stationery (your business personality.) Using different stationery for different reasons conveys clarity of purpose.

4. What is WebMail?

WebMail is a web site based mail system, on private servers, that provides access to RVMail.net accounts from any location that has a computer that can connect to the Internet. It doesn't matter whether you own, or don't own, a computer, you can retrieve your RVMail.net where ever you can find an Internet computer terminal. Perfect solution for RVers away from home needing to stay in contact with family members, friends, or business associates.

5. What is a POP box, and IMAP?

When electronic mailboxes were established, their defined structure was titled "Post Office Protocol." Or, in short hand, POP boxes. IMAP is Internet Message Access Protocol. RVMail.net can use both.

6. Who is an ISP?

ISP stands for Internet Service Provider. Some entity (provider) must act as a gateway (service) to the Internet.

7. Explain "ISP."

This is the computer server entry point to the world-wide network of other computers where Internet domains (web sites) reside to be "served up" to the public. They are the gateway to the Internet.

8. What do you mean by a forwarded e-mail?
Example! Let's say that the e-mail provided you when you first signed up with an ISP is "mary@ISP.com." But you also now have "mary@rvmail.net" To retrieve your mail would require you to set your email program to go to two places; "ISP" and "RVMail.net." To simplify the process, you can establish your "ISP" email to "forward" to your "RVMail.net" address which then becomes your destination e-mail address. Now by simply checking mail at your RVMail.net address, you have collected mail from two places. One can have many email addresses and have them all forwarded to one place. If several people are authorized to retrieve mail, and some mail is private, then this process may not be advisable.

9. Is this a new idea?

No. There are many web sites that will handle e-mail forwarding. Here are a few; hotmail.com, bigfoot.com, mail.com, myownmail.com and vanitymail.com.

10. Give me a case where I wouldn't want my RVMail.net forwarded.

Let's say you are a full-time RVer and you use a mail-forwarding company to forward regular mail. For a charge, the mail-forwarding company can download your email at RVMail.net, print it, and include it with your regular U.S. mail. Another case would be if you ask a family member, or friend, to get your email for you. By retrieving your RV mail separately they are not privy to any other email address that you may have. Also, an RVMail.net account can be a neat way to get mail from any Internet connected computer, anywhere.

11. Does any of this effect my choice of a Internet Service Provider (ISP).

No, in fact there can be an added benefit. Let's say you have an ISP address for which you are paying $21.50 per month. A friend tells you that another ISP is only $14.50 per month, so you decide to change. Because you are using RVMail.net as your primary address, you don't have to tell anyone about the change.


12. That's fine in receiving an e-mail, but will I not reveal my ISP e-mail address when I send an e-mail?

Not necessarily so. Good e-mail programs will let you identify an "outbound" e-mail personality. In other words, that is the e-mail address you want your friends to respond to. You would show your RVMail.net address as your personality. Then the world only knows you by one e-mail address, and one that does not change.

13. So, nothing prevents me from changing my ISP, right?

Right. Nothing!

14. I know of people that have an e-mail name with their surname after the @ sign. How did that happen?

Registering your own domain name is the only way that you can have the address you describe. So you buy a domain name (assuming it is available.) Someone has to "host" your domain. That means to "serve it up" to the Internet. We can do that too. That all costs more than $15.00 per year.

15. What about the privacy issues?

This web site collects no data except what you give it and it shares that data only with your permission While we have no control over our web site server except by selection, we use only the best and well respected on the web.