How can I subscribe to a Google mailing list with a non-Google e-mail address?

Question

Some projects host their mailing lists on Google Groups, like this: http://groups.google.com/group/mojolicious

I'm an old-fashioned guy, and I don't like reading mail on the web. I would very much prefer to get these mails in my normal inbox (which is also not hosted by Google).

Is it possible to subscribe to Google Groups mailing lists like they're normal, non-Google-hosted mailing lists? If yes, how?

Answer 1

Yes, just click in Join this group and choose your preferences. Then you're set

Edit: I'm sorry I've misread your question.

You could try this trick, paste in your browser URL bar:

http://groups.google.com/group/mojolicious/boxsubscribe?email=myid

Replace 'mojolicious' with the name of the group you want to join, and replace myid with the email address you want to use. You should get a confirmation email (I've just tried it and it works with hotmail)

Answer 2

from http://itcentralblog.com/?p=36002

Procedure to join Google Groups without creating a Google account:

1) First send an email to (Group Name)+subscribe@googlegroups.com.

2) +subscribe is the key, which is appended to the end of group’s email address.

3) (Group Name) is the name of the group. Space is substituted by “-” (hyphen).

4) Now send an email to solidblogger+subscribe@googlegroups.com.

5) Visit he group web page on Google Groups, and click on “About this group”.

6) Now select “About” in the drop down menu.

7) Look for group email address in the heading of “Group email”, it will look like: Group email solidblogger@googlegroups.com.

Note: You should send the subscribing email from the email address which you want to receive the messages mailing. You may need to confirm the subscription request for some groups.

Answer 3

As you can subscribe to the mailing list using your Google Account, and therefore get these mails sent to your address associated with the Google account, you should be able to forward these messages by filtering the appropriate message subjects and sending these to the account you have outside of Google mail. If you look at the actual sender of these Google groups mails, you might be able to figure out a general rule for your filters, so you won't have to set a filter for every mail. It should work as a fine workaround imho.

Answer 4

Is it possible to subscribe to Google Groups mailing lists like they're normal, non-Google-hosted mailing lists?

Yes. You must done as c33s's tip say.

If you try bruno077's tip you will see that google has change the web interface and it will not work.