The email integration is a non-solution for us. I had previously considered it. That would allow anyone to post to the group, which we don't want in this case. Also, the email integrations have absolutely awful email addresses; many of my members are older and less technically savy, and won't be able to handle the long string of characters in the name. Many of them manually type the email address into the "To" field each time, despite my guidance that they add it to their "Contacts" or "Address Book". It was a lot just to get them to add an additional word and dot after the @ symbol in the address ("What do you mean the address is ? But when I email, it comes from , and that doesn't have two dots? etc. etc.)
I'm looking into the automatic response now, but haven't had a ton of luck so far.
Other ideas? This is quickly pushing my group away from this service as we left our original system for similar concerns with the burden of management.
