Seattle Area Narcotics Anonymous
Service Committee Email Addresses

As part of maintaining the Seattle NA website and domain name, the Public Information subcommittee provides email addresses for all Seattle Area service committees that want one. This page is intended for Seattle Area members, and provides details about what's available and how to get a service committee email address set up. (See the Service Committees page for examples of addresses that have been set up.) The addresses can be either for the committee chair, or for the committee as a whole.

There are two different ways of receiving email.

1. We can set things up so that mail to the committee address is automatically forwarded, for example to a personal email address. The committee address is just an alias in this case.  The advantage is that messages can be delivered to an email address that you are checking already. The disadvantage is that any replies that you send to messages will come from your personal address. However, your personal address won't be published anywhere on our web pages or elsewhere, just the seattlena.org address.  Most of the seattlena.org email addresses are aliases of this kind.
2. Your committee can have a real mailbox on the seattlena.org host site (rather than just an alias). You read and send email using a web browser. The advantage of this is that the address isn't tied to any individual, and several committee members can share it. The disadvantage is that you have to remember to check the mailbox regularly.

To get an address set up or make a change, send a message with the necessary information to web-maintainer. If you want a separate mailbox, you'll need a password - for security reasons we prefer not to send passwords in email messages, so include your phone number.

Directions for reading email at a Seattle NA mailbox

The following directions apply only if you have a mailbox on the Seattle NA site -- if you're using forwarding just read the mail as you usually do whereever it's forwarded to.

Point your web browser at http://mail.seattlena.org. Fill in the form with your Seattle NA email address and password. (Note that the email address is the full address, for example info@seattlena.org, not just the info part.)

Advanced Features

Mail to an alias can be forwarded to several different places.  (The system will duplicate the message and forward a copy to each separate address.)  You might want this if there are several service committee members monitoring an email address.  For example, we use this with the Schedules address - copies of mail to this address go to both the chair of the Schedules Committee, and also the web maintainer, since we need to make changes both to the printed schedule and the web schedule.

If your committee has a real mailbox on the seattlena.org host site (not an alias), you can set it up so that it sends a copy of any message to another address as well.  This is useful if you want a notification that mail has arrived in the mailbox and you should check it.

Comments and questions to: web-maintainer.