Group owners and managers can view and edit the details of their groups.
Change group settings
- Sign in to Google Groups.
- Click the name of a group.
- On the left, click Group settings.
- Enter information and choose settings for the group.
- Click Save changes.
Settings reference
General | Member privacy | Posting policies | Email options | Member moderation
General
Setting | Description |
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Group name |
Enter a name that identifies the group in lists and messages. Use these guidelines:
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Group email |
Enter an email address for the group. If more than one domain is displayed, select the appropriate domain from the list. Follow these guidelines:
If you're creating your group in a work or school account, your email address might include a suffix, such as -user-created. For example, if your group name is training, the actual email address might be training-user-created@your_domain. |
Group description |
(Optional) To add information to the group’s About page, enter the purpose of the group or how it's used. You could include information about group members, group content, an FAQ, links to related groups, and so on. |
Welcome message | Enter, edit, or delete a welcome message for your group. See Add or change a group's welcome message. |
Enable additional Google Groups features | Select the option to make the group a Collaborative Inbox. See Make a group a Collaborative Inbox. |
Shared labels | Check the box to turn on the ability to label conversations for easier organization and search. See Turn on shared labels. |
Who can see group |
Choose an option for who can find the group by searching for the group’s name, email address, or conversations:
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Who can join group |
Choose an option:
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Allow external members |
Choose whether to allow people outside of your organization to become group members. This option appears only for groups you create from a work or school account, and only if your administrator enables the option to let group owners allow external members. |
Who can view conversations | Choose who can see conversations posted to the group. |
Who can post | Choose who can send messages to the group email address. |
Who can view members | Choose who can view the group's member list. |
Group content classification |
Choose whether the group content is suitable for everyone or adults only. If you choose adults only, you can’t change this setting later. This option appears only for groups you create in the public googlegroups.com domain. |
Member privacy
Setting | Description |
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Identification required for new members |
Choose the form of identity required for new members. |
Who can contact group owners | Choose which users can contact members with the owner role in the group. |
Who can view member email addresses | Choose which users can view member email addresses in the Groups UI. Email addresses might still be visible in other Workspace apps. |
Posting policies
Setting | Description |
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Allow Email Posting |
Check this box to let people post messages to the group. If you uncheck this box, people can't send messages to the group using the group's email address.
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Allow web posting | Check this box to let people send messages to the group using the Google Groups interface (groups.google.com). |
Conversation history |
Turn on conversation history so that members can view posts in Google Groups anytime.
Group owners and managers can turn the feature on or off for each of their groups.
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Who can reply privately to authors | Choose which users can privately reply to authors, as opposed to the whole group. |
Who can attach files | Choose which users can attach files, such as documents or photos. |
Who can moderate content | Choose which users can approve, block, and delete messages in the group. |
Who can moderate metadata | Choose which users can use Collaborative Inbox features. |
Who can post as group | Choose which users can post messages from the group's email address instead of their own email address. |
Default sender |
Choose the default address for messages sent from the group:
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Message moderation |
Choose whether to review and approve messages before sending them to the group:
To learn how to moderate messages, see Approve or block new messages. |
New member restrictions |
Choose the initial posting privileges for members when you add them to the group:
You can change these settings at any time for a given member. |
Spam message handling |
Choose how to handle messages sent to the group when the system marks them as spam:
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Rejected message notification | Choose whether to notify senders when messages are rejected instead of being delivered to the group. |
Email options
Setting | Description |
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Subject prefix |
Automatically add a prefix to the subject line of group messages. A prefix helps identify email from the group.
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Email footer |
Choose what appears in the footer of group email messages:
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Group email language | Enter the language to be used for system-generated information such as notifications and email footers. |
Auto replies |
Check the boxes to send automatic replies to incoming messages from group members or non-members inside or outside your organization. This option appears only if you’re signed in to a work or school account. |
Post replies to |
Choose where replies to group posts are sent:
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Conversation mode |
Turn conversation mode on or off. Conversation mode determines what happens to new messages that share the exact same subject as an existing thread that has recent activity but aren’t sent as replies to that thread. When conversation mode is on, these types of messages are added to the thread as a reply. When this mode is off, these messages generate a new thread. If you turn conversation mode off, any messages already in a thread remain unchanged. Only new messages are affected. |
Member moderation
Setting | Description |
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Who can manage members | Choose who can add or remove members. |
Who can modify custom roles | Choose who can change permissions for group roles. |
Custom roles | Create and edit custom roles for your group. See Create or edit a custom role. |
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