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Re: Aliases

 

Sharon,

I need to know how aliases work ¡ª what goes in the alias field.

What goes in the alias field is an alternate posting address - Groups.io will accept messages from that address as if they came from the member's subscribed address.

subscription at = 334@...
receives and sends from gmail = 789@890

GroupsIO reads the gmail instead of the subscribed address. Which goes in the alias box? Should she change her subscription to the other address?

The simplest thing to do would be for her to change her account email address to the gmail address. Then receiving there and sending from there would work naturally.

But that somewhat depends on why she has that forwarding set up in the first place:
  • If it is to get around Gmail's habit of hiding returned messages, that is not necessary at Groups.io - there is a work-around that does not require the use of a second address.
  • If her subscription here came about by a group transfer from Yahoo Groups,
    and the subscription address is a Yahoo Mail address because she thought it had to be that way, that's also not needed at Groups.io
But it is possible she has some other reason for what she is doing. In which case adding her gmail address as the alias should allow her to post from the gmail address while continuing to receive messages forwarded through her subscribed address.

Shal


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