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Anyone in a Leadership position or baptized should have a @churchofJesusChrist.Org address

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danielcombs1
New Member
#1
The reason is that if you are conducting church business and you want people to receive it, you are not depending on multiple e-mail domains to deliver potentially confidential information or church related business that potentially is being blocked by providers with e-mail services.

Concepts and Ideas
* Tie this into the Gospel Living App or Website when members login.
* Modify/Enhance LCR to send to church only e-mail domain addresses.
* Reduce number of domains being used for e-mail delivery.
* Have a single location to obtain e-mails from church members.
* Have a primary church e-mail address with @churchofjesuschrist.org
* Do not mix church business with outside e-mail domains
* A Central location/inbox to receive your correspondence when you login to your account.
* Have an option available when membership record is created and activated upon parents approval and electronically.
* If you login to your account you should receive e-mails based on your calling or membership or who your leader is.
Daniel Combs
Stake Assistant Clerk--Technology Specialist
Clinton Utah North Stake
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
801-390-6203
danielcombs1@gmail.com
garystroble
Senior Member
#2
danielcombs1 wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:41 pm The reason is that if you are conducting church business and you want people to receive it, you are not depending on multiple e-mail domains to deliver potentially confidential information or church related business that potentially is being blocked by providers with e-mail services.

Concepts and Ideas
* Tie this into the Gospel Living App or Website when members login.
* Modify/Enhance LCR to send to church only e-mail domain addresses.
* Reduce number of domains being used for e-mail delivery.
* Have a single location to obtain e-mails from church members.
* Have a primary church e-mail address with @churchofjesuschrist.org
* Do not mix church business with outside e-mail domains
* A Central location/inbox to receive your correspondence when you login to your account.
* Have an option available when membership record is created and activated upon parents approval and electronically.
* If you login to your account you should receive e-mails based on your calling or membership or who your leader is.
Unfortunately:
* Even church email addresses have sometimes been blocked on the internet.
* The Church does not own the internet and will have no control over how confidential emails are routed. This would not be a closed system.
* Members will not all agree to this.
* Anyone concerned with or having any knowledge of security will realize how hack-able this still is, maybe even more so.
* When the church web site is down (see Sunday's especially on the calendar), in total or partially, access to emails would not be available.

Good luck with your ideas however. Did you submit them via contact us on the church web page?
russellhltn
Community Administrator
#3
As I recall, stake presidents and maybe bishops used to have a church email. And then it disappeared for some reason. Most likely it became more of a problem then a help. It would be interesting to find out why, because that issue will have to be addressed before undertaking a more ambitious email system.

Keep in mind that if you run a email system, you'll have to deal with complaints about spamming and other abuse by users of the system.
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garystroble
Senior Member
#4
Bishops never had a church email address. Stake Presidents may still have one, but it not published in CDOL.

And a few more potential issues:
* Will members in other countries be willing and/or able to do this?
* Based on how they are currently handling emails so unsuccessfully through their system, I don't see much future in a total church domain working well.
sbradshaw
Community Moderators
#5
Another issue is that members may use their Church email addresses to send misleading emails that make people think they're an official representative of the Church. This is why Google gives out Gmail.com email addresses instead of Google.com email addresses. Even missionaries are given Missionary.org email addresses instead of ChurchofJesusChrist.org. It would have to be separate enough that nobody outside the Church receiving an email would think that it represents an official Church employee or leader.

If the goal is an entirely closed system, only for members to communicate with other members, it would be easier to improve and expand Gospel Living circles rather than setting up an email system.
Samuel Bradshaw • If you desire to serve God, you are called to the work.
lajackson
Community Moderators
#6
garystroble wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:55 pm Bishops never had a church email address. Stake Presidents may still have one, but it not published in CDOL.
Stakes used to have an email address that the stake president was able to access based on their unit number. They all went away a number of years ago.
BrianEdwards
Senior Member
#7
One useful thing I've seen is units that have calling-specific emails that persist regardless of who is holding that calling. For example, something like "Provo354thWardBishop@somehost". This accomplishes the church-and-state separation that is quite helpful so our personal lives remain distinct ;) , but even better allows calling-specific email communications to be readily available to the next calling holder. In my current calling there's a huge amount of email correspondence, much of which is confidential, that I'll gratefully hand over to my future replacement, and he can choose if he wants to continue using that email for his calling, or simply use it for historical reference.

Not exactly aligned with the O.P., but just sharing for reference.
munaish
Member
#8
Or, we could forget about email, and just implement private messaging into our Church accounts (allowing communication at least between those who would be in our circles in Gospel Living).

We already have private messages on FamilySearch (but I'm talking about everywhere: ward, and stake).

This solve the following problems:
- Impersonations
- People changing their email address
- Having to know what people's email addresses are
- Having official church communication that companies like Google would have access to
- Church communications being unnoticed because of all the other emails around them.
- Having to remember another username and password.