[ale] slightly OT: what would you use to manage email forwarding lists for a non-profit?

[Harold Bieber]

If they use Gmail for business, why not use google groups?
bellchoir at mychurch.org, then in the members add the 10 or so people as
members. Anything sent to bellchoir at mychurch.org will be mailed directly to
the members of the group, and as a bonus, the group will keep the archive
of the message.

Let me know if you need further help with this. We do it here at the school
I work at, and there are some cool google admin command line tools so you
can just add people to the group without waiting for them to opt-in

Harold

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> So our church really needs to build and maintain maybe 20-30 email lists
> for youth group, bluegrass group, bell choir, chancel choir, study group 1,
> 3, 4, 5, mens group, soundTech group, etc.    So anyone can email to the
> group name and not keep up with addresses.   This shouldn't be hard.
>
> Church uses Gmail for Business.    We tried setting up a gmail address,
> and enabling Forwarding, and put in 12 address. BUT Gmail only allows 2 out
> of the 12 to be "in use" at any time.    So it looks like that's a
> flop.     And it's kinda a PIA, as every address you put in, Gmail sends
> them an email and they have to opt-in.     With some user populations, that
> ain't never going to happen.
>
> I've setup forwarding within my company Godaddy account, but that's not
> easy enough to delegate to anyone.
>
> Ideally, it should:
>
> - be useable by multiple people, like a handful
> - verify addresses are good via STMP but not require an opt-in
> - forward such that replies also get forwarded.
> - I don't want to host this somewhere and have to support it forever
>
> Thoughts?  MailChimp came to mind, but I thus far have no experience with
> it.
>
> regards,
>
>
> Neal
>
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