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Email text width setting in email browsers from Genealogy groups. #email #email settings
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When a group owner sets posts on their group, is there a text width setting as most emails come to my iMac with half the screen wasted and excessive scrolling required to reach the bottom of a Digest email?
Changes to my email browser does not fix this, so I assume it comes from the page width and text length settings somewhere else.? I include a sample. Regards, John |
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Re: Help, one of my new groups is getting tons of "Re: reply to subscribe"
On 14/01/2020 08:58, Samuel Murray wrote:
On 14/01/2020 08:07, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:Actually, I just thought of another way this might have happened, which is due to a design flaw in GIO itself.One of my new groups is getting tons of "Re: reply to subscribe" messages. But they are not subbed! If I approve the message, it seems to appear as a message. :( However, some seem properly subbed, as I can click on their email and see that.[My guess is that the] original sender of the "reply to subscribe" message did not realise that he needs to press REPLY in his mail program in order to confirm his subscription, so he did what some e-mail users nowadays do: he created a *new* e-mail and addressed it to what he considered the originator of the mail that he's When someone tries to subscribe via e-mail, they get a message from GIO saying the following: ------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for your interest in Groups.io and the group [email protected]. To complete your subscription, please reply to this email. ------------------------------------------------------ If "[email protected]" is a hyperlink (or if one's e-mail program turns it into a hyperlink), then that address is the only thing in the entire message that is clickable (except the footer). He might either click it because he is used to clicking an e-mail link to start up an e-mail. Alternatively, he might click it because clicking a link is a very common action during two-step subscription of online services. In fact, when I personally subscribe to anything online that uses two-step subscription, I don't actually **read** the mail I receive, but simply glance at the message and then click the most prominent link. I suspect many people do that. Samuel |
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Re: Testing Ways to Subscribe - Can't stop GIO from logging me into my own account
On 15/01/2020 00:15, Darlene Dimitrie via Groups.Io wrote:
Right now I'm a trying to subscribe via email using <list-name>[email protected]What do you mean "when I click that"? What do you click? When I do a test by trying to subscribe by sending an e-mail to [email protected], the test user gets an e-mail telling him to "complete" his subscription by replying to the message, but there is no link in that e-mail that one can click (except for the e-mail address itself, but that is because my e-mail program automatically changes e-mail addresses into links). On some other mailing list systems that I have seen, the reply sent in request to a "subscribe" or "join" e-mail also contains a unique link that one can click in order to confirm one's subscription (and one's e-mail address), but the IO reply does not have that, unfortunately. Samuel |
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Re: Testing Ways to Subscribe - Can't stop GIO from logging me into my own account
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 07:44 PM, Darlene Dimitrie wrote:
I'm using a different email address.? That's the odd part.If you have that address set up as an email alias for the existing account, that might explain the observed behavior. Bruce |
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Re: Testing Ways to Subscribe - Can't stop GIO from logging me into my own account
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 05:25 PM, Darlene Dimitrie wrote:
Any suggestions on how to able to "act like I don't have any accounts" and just go the normal route of a brand new user of GIO?You'll need another email account (or subscribe to a different group.)? You can't use the subscribe address for your own group using the email address that's in your account.? A subscription here, via email, is pretty much the same as you're used to.? No need to visit the site at all.? Also see /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Joining-a-group Duane -- GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Help: /static/help Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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Re: Help, one of my new groups is getting tons of "Re: reply to subscribe"
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:32 PM, Samuel Murray wrote:
Thanks. I searched the official help pages and the GMF wiki before I pressed SEND but could not find the information. Do you happen to know (off the top of your head) where this information is written (if any)? Samuel, I had to use the Search in the wiki! I think it needs an image though!
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Re: Settings for digest options
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 01:14 PM, David Grimm wrote:
Now I'll go ask the owner of the other group why that setting is on.Some groups use it so that the footers in the digest are consistent (and have live links). Duane -- GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Help: /static/help Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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Re: Basic question: using groups.io address
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On 14/01/2020 18:09, Karen Peteros wrote:
I have tried doing this with our groups.io address but the emails keep bouncing back "permanent error."Could you tell us the name of your group and the e-mail address that you were trying to send a message to? If you go to your group in the browser and go Admin > Activity, do you see anything that indicates that your test message was received? Samuel |
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Re: Basic question: using groups.io address
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:33 AM, Karen Peteros wrote:
I used to have our yahoogroups address in my contacts to easily write emails to the group without having to go into the group account page and post a message.? I have tried doing this with our groups.io address but the emails keep bouncing back "permanent error."More than likely your email program is inserting the YG address if they have the same name.? If that's not it, you can create a contact using [email protected], substituting the actual name for GROUPNAME.? I'd also delete the contact for the YG. Duane -- GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Help: /static/help Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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Re: Settings for digest options
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:32 AM, David Grimm wrote:
As owner of another group, I looked everywhere and I don't see how that limitation was even put on. What am I missing?On the Settings page, in the Message Formatting section, there's Force HTML Emails.? If that's turned on, it removes the Plain Text Digest option. Duane -- GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Help: /static/help Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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Re: Insert or swap rows in a database table
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:32 AM, R. Hari wrote:
But I want to move a row up or down.Sorry, I misunderstood.? No, there's no way to move rows around, other than sorting on another column. Duane -- GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Help: /static/help Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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Basic question: using groups.io address
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We used to be on yahoogroups.com but recently switched to groups.io.? I used to have our yahoogroups address in my contacts to easily write emails to the group without having to go into the group account page and post a message.? I have tried doing this with our groups.io address but the emails keep bouncing back "permanent error."??
Do I have to enter our groups account page in order to post a message, or is there a trick to using our groups.io address to send a message without actually entering our group page? |
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Re: Help, one of my new groups is getting tons of "Re: reply to subscribe"
On 14/01/2020 14:07, Frances wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 04:36 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:Thanks. I searched the official help pages and the GMF wiki before I pressed SEND but could not find the information. Do you happen to know (off the top of your head) where this information is written (if any)?I'm not sure if it is possible to set a topic as moderated, but ifYes, you can use the More menu to set a topic as moderated. You must be an owner or moderator. Samuel |
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