Google Workspace – Allow Non-Members to Email Google Groups

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I have various groups set up for my organization to facilitate easier sending of emails to their members. Everyone is a member, except that I am an owner of these groups. Several others need access to be able to email these groups, but making them owners would mean they would receive future correspondence intended for the group. How can I allow only certain users to email a group, but not allow them to receive emails sent to the group? I am set up with an Education account; the additional Business features are not enabled.

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Create a user account called forwarding-user@yourdomain.com. Then make forwarding-user@yourdomain.com a member of your group group@yourdomain.com. Then for each of the individuals outsider@somedomain.com who need to email group@yourdomain.com create a filter in forwarding-user@yourdomain.com to foward their mail.

When outsider@somedomain.com emails to forwarding-user@yourdomain.com, it is forwarded to group@yourdomain.com. Messages in group@yourdomain.com go to forwarding-user@yourdomain.com but go no further. For cleanliness, you could create another filter that deleted all the messages from group@yourdomain.com.

Of course, this would be very cumbersome if you have a lot of outsider@somedomain.com users.

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Gmail not grouping messages with the same subject from Google Groups

As a bit of a spoiler, we tested this last night. I have two email address (which I will call for the sake of example "test1@gmail.com" and "test2@gmail.com"), and then we did this:

To:      Rebecca <Recip@gmail.com>
From:    My Name <test1@gmail.com>
Subject: this is a test
Body:  blah blah whatever

and additionally

To:      Rebecca <Recip@gmail.com>
From:    My Name <test1@gmail.com>
Subject: this is a test
Body:  this should nest under the other

and voila, they nested. No work required. And then we did this:

To:      Rebecca <Recip@gmail.com>
From:    My Name <test2@gmail.com>
Subject: this is a test
Body:  does this nest with the others?

And it didn't nest!

So in other words, two emails from the same sender with the same subject will nest. Two emails from two different addresses with the same subject will not nest.

Gmail – Sharing One Email Address Across Multiple Accounts

Definitely the new the collaborative inbox from Google Groups for Business if you are on a Google Apps for business.

If not it worth the upgrade.

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&hlrm=en&answer=167430

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