Adding Via Groups IO to my sender name
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On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 08:30 AM, <a.loopy.letter@...> wrote:
I hope someone can help because I don't like that being added.? Other people in the group use gmail without this issue.?Not anymore. See??and also?/static/help#dmarc? Hope this helps, Bruce? -- The system Help is your friend.??/static/help |
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Loopy,
It was all fine until about 4 or 5 days ago and once again thisAs Bruce cited, a few weeks ago Gmail made a change, which caused a warning to be displayed if you receive your own message back from Groups.io. To avoid that warning Groups.io made a change to how the "From" field is written when sent back to you (but not to other members of the group). That's what you're seeing. I don't like it either. I was happy with my messages showing up in Gmail as From "me", now they're From someone named "Shal Farley via Groups.io". Aside from being ugly, this new method confuses my email client (Thunderbird) because the From no longer matches any account I actually have. PITA I hope someone can help because I don't like that being added.Not in the foreseeable future. There is a technique Groups.io can try (ARC signing the messages), but it is a lot of work for Mark and not guaranteed to succeed. Or Gmail could roll back that change, but that is even less likely, Mark has talked with an engineer there and he says the trend is towards tightening the rules, not relaxing them. Gmail's intent is to ensure that you, as a recipient of a message, can tell when the message was sent directly from someone's email account versus when it was sent "via" some third-party service (a list) like Groups.io. Other people in the group use gmail without this issue.For now, you see other member's addresses without that change, and they see yours without it. And every Gmail user sees their own with it. But if Gmail tightens this up further Groups.io may be forced to re-write more user's From addresses. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Ellen,
Isn't the option to use your .. I call it my main addy ... instead ofPosting from one address, while receiving at another is one work-around; one can do that with an Email Alias address in your account (or a second account and subscription). With Gmail as your provider you might not even need a second email address, just use a "dotted" form for one of them (shals.2nd versus shals2nd, for example). I'm not sure though that I'd consider that any less a PITA than putting up with the From rewriting. Though I suppose once you've got it set it up right it may not require further effort. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Loopy,
So it appears this is going to happen with any email I use?Yes and no. It depends not only on the service you use, but on the email interface of the person looking at your message. ... I changed to Gmail and now it's there also.When you look at your own, yes, but not as others see it. For example, when I look at your message in my Gmail Inbox I see a.loopy.letter and nothing else. But in the previow of the message, or the message when I open it, I see your email address in bold, with "via groups.io" in small print. However, when I look at my own message (also sent from Gmail) or a message from someone with one of the DMARC-affected services, in the Inbox I see the person's name followed by "via Gro." (apparently the column width is too narrow to spell it out). But in the preview (and opened message) I see "Shal Farley via Groups.io" all in the same bold face. Using my email application, Thunderbird, I do not see any "via Groups.io" at all for your address (but do for mine and for the DMARC-affected ones). I have an outlook account I can use but no point changing it if thatThere's basically no point in trying to deal with this issue, it is largely out of users' hands. More and more I suspect users will need to get used to seeing markings like that on messages that went through email lists of any sort. They're trying to stomp out the kind of confusion that some users have about whether a given message came directly or via a list. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Bruce
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