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How to set the display name for group members in Google Groups?
If you need to edit the "Display Name" of a user there is a easy work around for the Group Manager.
Make a note of the members details i.e. email address
Remove them from the group.
Directly add them ...
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"From:" address is sometimes the Google Group list email
This masking happens as Google Groups forward incoming messages: In case the sender has strict email delivery settings, Google needs to show that it redirected the message (and thereby became the new ...
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Enable posting by email
Post by Email or by Web
Information > General information > Posting options > Allow posting by email
Information > General information > Posting options > Allow users to post to the ...
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How can I subscribe to a Google mailing list with a non-Google e-mail address?
If you ever involve a web browser in the process (that is logged in to your Google account) then Google will ignore the address that you chose to sign up with and sign up your Google account instead. ...
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Do a user's access permissions to a document change if they are removed from the Google Group?
I tested the following using 2 unique Gmail accounts:
User Alice created a Google Group and invited User Bob to join.
Alice created a Google Doc and wrote text.
Alice shared the Google Doc with the ...
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Remove all footers from Google Group listserv
Found the answer with help from @Yisroel Tech
Business (not regular) users have that checkbox option to uncheck "Include Default Groups Footer" and that will remove all footers when sent to ...
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Emails to Google Groups email address aren't working
In case it helps someone, if you don't see the "Who can post -> Anyone on the web"
You need to enable emails outside of the organization in
Apps>Google Workspace>Groups for Business&...
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Is it possible to exclude a recipient when sending to a Google/Gmail group?
The short answer is Yes :)
You can create a Content Compliance rule to prevent emails getting to certain Group members. In this example, I added the rule to the OU which has all users you do not want ...
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Whitelist email address for a Google Group
This is a frustrating limitation in Google Groups. There is no explicit whitelist. Only once a user has a post marked as spam, inevitable because of the awful false positive rate and no ability to ...
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Is it possible to have a custom email address for a Google Group?
No, I'm afraid not. You'll need a G Suite paid plan to do that.
I suppose you could set up an autoforward mailbox from your domain that would automatically send all messages on to the Google Groups ...
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Composing a plain text email in Google Groups
By default , it is just plain text, until you change certain formatting options.
(or paste in something with rich content, with ctrl+V rather than ctrl+shift+V)
As an owner of a group, you could ...
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G Suite - Allow public to send mails to a group alias
For G Suite, you can configure a group to accept emails from anyone, but you can't do it at groups.google.com (where you configure most group settings). Instead:
Visit admin.google.com, sign in
Click ...
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How can I send email from the google-group email address?
You can send email from the Google Groups address using its web page (see the steps below; they're harder to find after the recent UI changes), but you're correct that Gmail won't accept a group as a &...
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Emails to Google Groups email address aren't working
Emails to the group email address are inserted as and considered "posts" into the group thread.
If people outside the organization need to be able to send emails, you'll need to grant public ...
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How to set a profile picture for the Google Groups Email Address in Google Workspace, so recipients can see the profile picture in their Gmail inbox
From answer by LMcKin51- G-Suite-Product Expert, Diamond Product Expert, to Set avatar or profile picture for G Suite Google Group
Groups avator not supported
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How to allow to post in Google groups without moderation after first approved post?
When approving incoming posts from new members, there's a box to always allow future messages from that member.
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See all my posts across all Google Groups
You can see all the topics started by you and even the ones for what you have replied by going to filters and selecting the appropriate filter type.
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Allow users to email Google Apps group but not be members
As of 2018, the interface has been updated.
Manage Group -> Permissions -> Posting Permissions -> Post -> [Allow Public]
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Remove all footers from Google Group listserv
Did you try unchecking this?
But this is only available in paid G Suite accounts. For Google Groups on a free account, unfortunately, there is no option to remove it.
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Lost access to my Google Group
Add the non-Gmail address as as the primary or secondary email address of a Google account.
To add it as a primary email address you might create a new Google account non including Gmail. To add it as ...
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Invite workspace group email as optional?
You cannot mark the entire group as optional. Although you can "Expand" the group, which makes them all individual invitees. Then you can mark them as optional, or even remove individual ...
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Allowing non-domain members to view domain-based Google group
The solution is similar to bgmCoder's answer.
As of August 2019, you can now specify this per group.
In Google Admin (admin.google.com): Apps > G Suite > Groups for Business > Advanced settings
Set ...
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Google Groups thinks a member I want to add is already a member
Go to Google Groups Settings > Pending Requests. The person you sent to the request to probably never answered the invitation. Delete it and resend a new one. This just happened to me.
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Search for unread messages in Google Groups
There doesn't appear to be a way to filter for unread messages, however there are hot keys which will take you to the next/previous unread message, shift+j/shift+k, or shift+n/shift+p. Not too sure ...
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Use Google Groups Without Revealing Member Emails
Settings that affect the From address:
Settings / Email Options : Post replies (needs to be set to 'to the entire group')
Settings / Identity : Required forms of identity
Permissions / Access ...
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Is it possible to ban all attachments from a Google Group?
Group Manage page / Permissions / Posting permissions : Attach files ;
only enable it for owners/managers.
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Find a member's group memberships in Google Apps
I've never found a good solution to this. Instead, I've used a work around. I have a script that gives me a full list of all of the groups I can access and lists of their members. When I run "main" it ...
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Is it possible to exclude a recipient when sending to a Google/Gmail group?
larsen161 got me where I needed to go.
I wanted to exclude a User recipient from the "ALL" mailing group in my domain.
I followed larsen161 instructions but I also had to activate the Envelope filter ...
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Not allow attachments in groups
So you have the 'Attach Files' permission disabled for normal members in Permissions / Posting permissions?
Of course, if you only want them not to be able add attachments when posting by email, but ...
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Sharing Google Drive file using groups
Yes, if you add a new member to a group used to share files in Google Drive, the new member will be able to access the files shared with the group previously.
From Use groups to share content
If ...
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