About email forwarding

The website provider, IONOS provides email forwarding, which we use in the following ways:

• info@vcv.org.uk accepts any email sent to this old email address, then forwards it onto VCVmanager@gmail.com

• Simple, memorable email addresses can also hide your personal email address. For example: john@vcv.org.uk  can redirect email to john-smith@hotmail.com, which is useful for creating a disposable email address (or "burner").  Be aware that if you reply (to this redirected email), the recipient will see your real address. (Alternatively, consider using yopmail.com with an email-alias.)  As a further example, john.smith@vcv.org.uk can provide a professional-looking address, and can redirect email to your personal email address, such as johnnyboy77@hotmail.com. Be aware that if you reply (to this redirected email), the recipient will see your real address.

• *@vcv.org.uk catches all unknown or mistyped email address (like inof@vcv.org.uk), and sends them all to VCVmanager@gmail.com. See https://www.ionos.co.uk/help/email/general-topics/advantages-of-a-catch-all-email-address/ Occasionally we receive some strange emails that are obviously not intended for us.

Note

akeley@vcv.org.uk sends map information about the private site, Akeley Wood to the sender via text-only email. This is an example of an auto-responder. See the separate description about auto-responders.

Managing the email forwarding addresses

1. Log in to IONOS. The settings for email forwarding are not inside the website editor.
2. Before you click on "Edit website", click "MENU v" in the top right corner. Click on the Email icon.
3. Alternatively, you can open a new tab, and visit the following site, and follow instructions from there:
   https://my.ionos.co.uk/email-overview
4. At the following screen, you can edit or delete the email forwarding addresses.

The lines that contain a Palm Tree icon are auto-responders.  See the separate description about auto-responders.