Google Groups, Alternate Emails and what not

[chris]

I don't know if anyone is still here and if so, having trouble with the last minute transition to Google Groups, but I figured out why I (and others) were probably having problems associating various email addresses to the new group.

There are two different places you can associate email addresses with your Google accounts and they don't connect:

1) in your GMAIL account settings, you can associate additional email addresses to your GMAIL account so that you can have messages appear to be sent from different accounts; and

2) in your GOOGLE account settings, you can associate additional email addresses to your GOOGLE account so that various Google-things see them (groups, calendar, etc.).

Doing #1, which I and others did, doesn't make your additional email addresses available for Google Groups. You need to do #2 (which the instructions below are for -- I just thought I could ignore them, since I had already done #1..). Both processes involve adding your addresses and then dealing with verification emails, so they're very similar -- but not the same!

Chris

Subject: Google Groups, Alternate Emails and what not
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:22:39 -0400
Ok, I figured it out.
I don't know if it's a problem with Safari, or something
internal in Google, but I had to sign out and log back in. As
soon as I did it, I saw my alternate emails listed as expected.
1- Login to Google with your gmail account
2- Go to My Account in the top right
3- Edit My Personal Information
4- For each alternate email address you wish to add, enter
them at the "Associate email addresses with your account"
section
5- You will need to receive the confirmation email and reply
to that.
6- Once confirmed and entered, you will have the option to
choose which address you want to use to receive the BBEdit
Talk stuff.
6 - Confirm Emails
7 - Log out of Google
8 - Log back in
9 - Find your emails listed in the "Edit my Membership" portion of the
Group page.
That is all :)
-Derek