Manage your subscriptions and groups

In this section, you learn how to:

• Mark groups and messages as favorites
• View and edit membership settings
• Approve or block new messages
• Remove or ban people from a group

Mark groups and messages as favorites

View and edit membership settings

Manage your subscriptions

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. On the left, click My membership settings.
4. For Subscription, choose an option:
   • Each email—Messages are sent individually as they’re posted to the group.
   • Digest—Up to 25 complete messages are combined into single emails and sent daily.
   • Abridged—Summaries of up to 150 messages are combined into single emails and sent daily.
   • No email—Messages from the group are not sent.

   To receive abridged summaries or digests of a group’s messages, you must turn on conversation history for the group.

5. Click Save changes.

Manage your global settings

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. At the top right, click Settings Global settings.
3. Review or change your settings:
   • Add/Invite settings—Allow group owners and managers to invite you to join their group, add you directly, or both.
   • Notifications—Get notified if someone assigns a conversation to you.  
   • Display language—Click the link to select a default language for viewing all of your Google Account services, including Groups.
   • Bounce status—See if your email address is flagged to indicate that messages sent to you are bouncing. If so, click the link to remove the bounce status.
4. Click Save.

Approve or block new messages

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. On the left, click Group settingsPosting policies.
4. Select your moderation options. For:

   • Message moderation—Choose a review option: Moderate all messages, Moderate messages from non-members, or No moderation.
   • New member restrictions—To review messages from new members, select New member posts are moderated.

   Note: When message moderation is turned on, moderation requests are always visible to group owners. Group managers and members might see moderation requests based on the group settings.

5. (Optional) To send a notification when a moderated message is rejected, for Rejected message notification, click On.
6. Click Save changes.

 

Approve or reject pending messages

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. On the left, for Conversations, click Pending.
4. (Optional) To read a message, click it.
5. (Optional) To approve or reject a single message, in the message entry, click Approve message or Reject message .
6. (Optional) To perform an action on multiple messages:
   1. Check the boxes next to the messages.
   2. At the top, choose an option:
      • To approve the messages, click Approve messages .
      • To reject the messages, click Reject messages .
      • To approve the messages and automatically approve all future posts by those authors, click Approve author .

        This option allows the author to post directly to the group in the future and supersedes group level moderation and posting permissions.

      • To ban the authors from the conversation and report the messages as spam, click Reject author .

Remove or ban people from a group

Remove members from a group

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. On the left, click Members.
4. Point to each member you want to removecheck the box next to their name.
5. At the top right, click Remove member OK to confirm.

Ban users from a group

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. To ban an existing member:
   1. On the left, click Members.
   2. Point to a member name and check the box.
   3. Click Ban member .
4. To ban non-members:
   1. In the left panel, click PeopleBanned users.
   2. In the Ban users field, enter names or email addressesclick Ban users.

 

View banned users or unban users

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. In the left panel, click PeopleBanned users.
4. Choose an option:
   • To unban a user, in the user entry on the right, click Un-ban user .
   • To unban multiple users, check the box next to the userabove the list to the right, click  Un-ban user  .