Following the recent changes in Yahoo DMARC policy to protect users from email spam, we’ve made changes to how Yahoo Groups sends mails to members’ inboxes.
When a member of a Yahoo Group replies to a post, mails are sent by Yahoo Groups on behalf of the user. The message is sent with the “From” email address as <groupname>@yahoogroups.com, and the display name in “From” would contain the email address of the sender and the name of the Yahoo Group.
Message sent by Yahoo Groups on behalf of the user used to appear as:
From: “My Name” <my_user_name@my_email_domain.com>
With the change, it would be:
From: “ ‘My Name’ my_user_name@my_email_domain.com [groupname]” <groupname@yahoogroups.com>
When replying to a Group message, Group “Reply-To” settings of the Group will continue to be honored on the Reply compose screen on the web and in your email service.
On the web experience, if you choose a “To” address other than reply to the group, like ‘reply to sender’ or ‘reply to group owner’ (using the drop-down menu), the “Reply to” mail address would be changed appropriately.
For example, if you choose to ‘reply to the sender,’ replies to your email will be delivered to your actual email address, even though the “From” address of your reply will have:
“ ‘My Name’ my_user_name@my_email_domain.com [groupname]” <groupname@yahoogroups.com>
With these changes we are addressing deliverability issues due to DMARC adoption by mail service providers.
- Yahoo Groups team
By Aravind Sampathkumaran, Product Leader, Yahoo Groups
We are excited to announce that plain blue links are becoming a thing of the past as we’re introducing link preview in Yahoo Groups. When composing a message on Yahoo Groups, if you paste a link from the internet, you will now see an instant preview of the content from that URL. The preview includes an image and short snippet from that web page.
As in Yahoo Mail, link preview works for articles, images and videos and is available in two sizes. You can also delete the preview card by clicking the ‘x’ icon in the top right corner of the card.
To try it out, simply paste the link to the article, photo or video you wish to share in the message you are composing in the Groups web experience and you will see a link preview appear. The recipient can see the link preview both in the email notification as well as the Message read experience on the Groups website.
We are currently supporting link preview for thousands of publishers and websites (including, of course, Flickr, Tumblr and all Yahoo sites), and we’re adding more publishers and websites all the time. We’re rolling it out to Groups users starting today. We look forward to your feedback on it.
By Aravind Sampathkumaran, Product Leader, Yahoo Groups
Beginning today, we’re making it possible for moderators to send mail to a pending member.
To get started, click the newly introduced ‘reply’ icon in the pending member page to launch the message compose window. The pending member will receive the message from the group owner’s email address. With this enhancement, Group moderators can ask pending members questions or provide information before making an approval decision.
This has been a popular request from Group moderators on our feedback forum, and we’re excited to introduce this enhancement. Give it a try and and share your feedback with us.
By Aravind Sampathkumaran, Product Leader, Yahoo Groups
Conversations in Yahoo Groups can become quite long when some messages in the topic are posted with attachments. Now, when you view a topic, Yahoo Groups surfaces the attachments in the topic automatically. All attachments are tabulated beside the topic with the most recent ones visible on top.
You can see all attachments in the topic, preview photo attachments instantly and download files attached to messages in the topic.
Please give it a try and share your feedback.
By Aravind Sampathkumaran, Product Leader, Yahoo Groups
When viewing a topic, some of our users wanted the ability to open a specific message independently and share the message url. We’re now introducing the ability to do just that on the message tiles.
The subject line of a message or the discussion topic is now shown below the toolbar to allow more of the subject text to be displayed.
When reading a message which is part of a topic with many posts, you can now see the number of messages in addition to the link where you can view all the messages in the conversation.
Enhancements for Groups moderators
Some of our moderators reported an issue involving the truncation of a comment submitted by pending member. This has now been resolved.
In addition, many of our moderators requested the option to set their groups to ‘plain text’ mode, we’re rolling this out progressively. Please go to ‘Management » Group settings’ to see expanded options that now include plain text.
We hope you find these updates to be useful.
Please continue to send us your feedback!
By Aravind Sampathkumaran, Product Leader, Yahoo Groups
In response to a popular feature request, we’ve enhanced the search experience in your Yahoo Group with Photo and File search. In building this capability, we’ve indexed hundreds of millions of photo albums and Files stored on Yahoo Groups.
As a member of your Group you can now search not only your archive of conversations, but also photos and files stored in your Yahoo Group.
The new Photo search works by indexing Photo album details and returns a list of matching albums. Files search indexes all file names and descriptions and also the contents of text files stored in your Group.
Give it a spin and we hope you like these new search experiences and as always, share your feedback here.
By Aravind Sampathkumaran, Product Leader, Yahoo Groups
Group moderators, now you have two additional membership management options, bulk remove and ban members. You can find these in the “Actions” menu in the “Manage Members” section under Group Management.
We made these product changes based on your feedback posts requesting the ability to bulk remove members up to 100 at a time and preemptively ban specific non-member IDs. You can remove members or ban members by submitting a list of email or Yahoo IDs, 100 members at a time.
By Aravind Sampathkumaran, Product Leader, Yahoo Groups
We’re always looking for ways to improve your experience with Groups. We’ve updated the Groups menu options so you can easily and consistently change views and perform actions across different sections of your Yahoo Group.
Photos : The “Action” menu within an album opens options to sort and edit the view. You can sort by manual order or by upload date and choose to display the photos in a grid or in justified view.
Database: Within a database, the “Action” menu gives you the option to change the line heights in the table - either “slim” for narrow lines or “relaxed” for wider ones. You also have the option to import or export data tables and print the database.
Messages : Within the Messages window, the “View” menu gives you the option to see the message history of the group, sort messages by date, and edit how the messages are presented.
Topics : Within a Topic, the “View” menu allows you to expand and collapse the messages in that topic, standardize the font, and sort messages by date posted.
Please continue to share your feedback and suggestions to improve Yahoo Groups.
When replying to a message, some of you may not have been able to choose your recipients via the drop-down menu since it was pointing to the default setting set for your group by the moderator.
Thanks for your feedback on the forum. We’ve investigated, identified the glitch and have fixed it. As always, keep sending us feedback!
By Aravind Sampathkumaran, Product Leader, Yahoo Groups
We continue to make updates based on feedback from all of you and today, we’re rolling four new enhancements
1.We’ve added more information about your group on the “About Group” page that displays number of members date founded etc.,
2. When you upload a file – you can choose to automatically notify members of the group, who get a mail with a link to the file and can quickly download it.
3. Some of you reported that the link to a poll question created for the group was not clickable – this has now been fixed
4. Moderators : The glitch reported in activity logging has been fixed
Also, we’ve been looking into your feedback after the recent enhancements to the database experience.Thanks for your input ! We’ll factor it in our upcoming product changes.
