Classified Email System

The Classified email system is designed to facilitate in-character communication and allowing in-character email addresses to be published without letting spammers email you.

The main features are:

• Any email address can email the GM team at gm@classified.chaoseathfish.com, or individual GM's email addresses.
• You can send IC email to any player's IC email address (on their bio) from a registered email address.
• Anyone you send an IC email to will not see your real email address; it will be replaced by your Classified email address.
• Your registered email addresses are listed in your user profile (see Update Profile link at the top-right when logged in).
• Your will receive any IC email for your character to the first listed registered email address in your user profile.
• Any email sent to a Classified email address, including a GM address, will also be sent to the GMs.

To expand upon the explanation above; To use the Classified email system, you must register any email addresses which you wish to use. This prevents spammers from emailing Classified players, and also allows the email system to rewrite your email address so that it comes from your in-character address.

Any email you send to a Classified email address (anything at classified.chaosdeathfish.com) is processed by the Classified email system. Firstly, any email addresses in the To, From and CC fields are converted to Classified email addresses, using the list stored in the system of which characters have registered which email addresses. Then, the message is sent to the first registered address of the recipient user.

So, to invent an example. Joseph Bloggs (user account joe_bloggs) has registered his email address (joe.bloggs@somewhere.com) on the system. If he now sends an email to Jane Doe (user account jane_doe), who has registered janedoe@somewhereelse.com:

From: joe.bloggs@somewhere.com
To: jane_doe@classified.chaosdeathfish.com
Subject: I know your secret

The email system will convert the email as so:

From: joe_bloggs@classified.chaosdeathfish.com
To: jane_doe@classified.chaosdeathfish.com
Subject: I know your secret

And this email will be sent to janedoe@somewhereelse.com

Hopefully this all makes sense.

In short, make sure that any email address you wish to send IC emails from are registered in your email account. Otherwise, your email will fail.

Also, make sure you put the email address you want to receive IC emails from first in your registered email list.

There is very little point setting up your email client to send mail from your classified.chaosdeathfish.com account directly, as emails from your normal account will be rewritten, but if you wish to do this you will have to add this account to your Classified user account profile (NOT first on the list) to allow the system to accept your emails.

As mentioned before, all in-character emails are copied to the GM team, so there is no need to copy us in when you use your in-character email addresses.

As mentioned elsewhere, the GMs can be contacted on gm@classified.chaosdeathfish.com. Anybody can email this address, it is not restricted to people who have wiki accounts set up.

Also, note that when you email any one GM the email is copied to all the other GMs. This helps us to deal with queries if one GM is busy, and keeps the entire GM team up-to-date on what everyone is up to.

You may have up to five registered email addresses. Registering your email addresses can be done from your Classified user account, using the 'Update Profile' link at the top of the page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email the GM list at gm@classified.chaosdeathfish.com, and we'll help you out.