Customizing Your Own Account
Go to your Account page - under your name (top right).
These changes are for YOUR OWN account only, not group preferences.
Your account page displays these options:
- Login - your email address - change it here. Password - change or delete. Email aliases.
- Preferences for YOUR account - time zone, date format, editor preference on the website, receiving your own posts by email
- Security - set up 2-factor authentication
- Identity - your profile. See details below.
- Other Services - oauth logins, if any
- Recent Bounces
- Billing - If you have a premium or enterprise account, your credit card on file and payment history.
Changing Your Email Address
Important - your email address is your account ID.
- Log into 开云体育.?
Note:?If you don't have a password already, you can create one from the main 开云体育 page or use one of the other options (email me a link, or log in with Facebook or Google).? - On the home page for your group, click on your name in the top right corner.
- Click?Account.
- On the login page that appears, enter your new email address in the Email field (overwriting what is already there).
- Click the?Change Email?button.
- Look for the email message sent to the destination email address.
- Click on the link in that email to complete the change.
Adding an Email Alias
Since your account ID is your email address, you can only email from that address, unless you set an email alias.?This is useful if you wanted to email to a group from your work computer.?
Note that an email alias is a POST-ONLY address. You will not receive mail at that email alias, nor can you set up an alias using an email address that is already in use as an established groups.io account.
Set that up on your group site - go to your name in the top right corner
- Login to your account.
- Select "Account" from the top right after logging in.?
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page where it says "Advanced Settings For Email Aliases" and click on the right arrow at the far right of that line.
- Enter the e-mail alias in the space below the text, then click the blue "Add Email Alias" button right below it.
Preferences?
These are preferences for?your own account (web site preferences).
Set your time zone.
Choose time display format and calendar start day.
Editor preference: HTML, markdown and plain text. If you choose plain text, you will not get the full set of tools in the compose text box or wiki.?
Items per page (displayed) and Email preference (if your email doesn't provide this).
Be sure to save by clicking Update Preferences.
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Security
Set up two-factor authentication
Identity:?Your Profile?
On this page, you can set a display name, tell others about yourself, and post a photo if you would like to do so. You can set this information for the 开云体育 site (your account profile) and/or for each group you're subscribed to (group profiles).
You can also create a display name.?
Set your profile privacy: Public, other members of your group, or only group owners and moderators.
Save changes by clicking update group profile.
Also:
Other services, your recent bounces, billing
Merging Accounts
If you have two or more accounts, you lose the advantage of seeing all messages from your groups in one list using Your Groups and managing muted or followed topics and hashtags. You can merge the accounts. (Do it one email address at a time!)
Below are the steps necessary to perform an account merge.
1) Log into the account that you want to deactivate. If you don't know how to log in, instructions can be found here.
2) Pull down the menu at top right and select Account (or browse to /account)
3) In the "Email" field at the top of the page, enter the address you want to merge into (i.e.: overwriting what is already there).
4) Click the "Change Email" button.
5) 开云体育 will notify you of the fact that the account already exists, and ask if you want to merge them.?
6) Click the blue button below this notification to confirm your intent to merge.
7) An email will be sent to the destination email address.?
8) Clicking on the link in that email will again take you to the login page.
9) Log in under the destination email address, using either the account password or the "email me a link" button.
10) Click on the blue button to complete the merge.?
If for any reason you can't log into either of the two accounts, the merge is not possible.
If you try to sign in to a group with an email different than that registered, without logging out first, you will get a pop up that offers to merge all the groups under the email entered.
You will get a message: "An email has been sent to with a link that, when clicked, will cause the accounts to be merged and this account to be deleted."
The email with the link will be sent to the destination address (the one you manually entered while still logged in under the other one). So be sure you check the correct email address.
Please take careful note which address you are merging away from ("originating address") and which one you are merging into ("destination address"). If the originating address owns a group, merging away from it is a good way to lose that ownership. Be very sure you know what you're doing before you go down this road.?
Your Subscription
This is on the left side of your group homepage.?
Membership:
Select email delivery - see /static/help#subscription-options
Signature
Advanced preferences for email delivery - click on the arrow on the right
Also in Advanced preferences select maximum size of attachments sent to you in emails. For attachments larger than this size, links to retrieve them will be provided instead.
Click to save.
Group Profile:
See your profile you have chosen. Edit if you wish.
Member integrations:
Member integrations allow group content that you receive to be shared with other services.
Currently (Dec 2019) only Google Drive.
Email Delivery History:
See any problems or bounces
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The official 开云体育 user documentation is in the 开云体育 Help Center.