Re: What is "Create a receive-only email" option?
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Mike,
So let's say there is a Yahoogroup called "chad" and we want all postsIn principle, yes. That would be the right way to do this, if you could subscribe the integration address to chad@.... In practice I was unable to get the Yahoo Group to accept the integration address as valid, either via the Invite function or the -subscribe email command. Alas, as that would have allowed the messages from the Yahoo group to enter the Groups.io group unmoderated. If an email-only email address does not work for this purpose, isYou can, from the Y!Group, invite [email protected] (check the Add only to mailing list box). For this to work you'll need to have the "Allow Non Subscribers to Post" box checked in [email protected] so that the invitation, and subsequent postings by Y!Group members, will be received in pending. The invitation you should click its link while still in Pending, then delete it from pending (no reason to let that post in [email protected]). That's the first bit of ugliness: no way to unmoderate non-subscribers. So every message posted to chad@... will need to be approved to appear in [email protected]. Probably not what you wanted. The next bit of ugliness has to do with how Yahoo Groups modify the From address of posting members. It arrives like: Display Name user@... [Y!tag] <Y!name-noreply@...> Which doesn't seem so bad at first until you realize that it is exposing the posting member's email address, unmasked, on the web pages of the Groups.io group -- which is a really bad idea if [email protected] has public messages. Depending on the group, maybe even if [email protected]'s messages are members-only. And, of course, each such post includes the Yahoo Group footer, with the posting member's email address again (but this time it is at least optionally masked). But those footers will get tiresome in the Message Section and in digests. In individual messages [email protected]'s members get both footers (oh, joy!). Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Shal Farley