We’ve always offered a Custom Domain feature on Gaggle Mail which worked by redirecting messages from an address you controlled to your @gaggle.email address. This solution has worked well for us over the years, partly down to its simplicity but it did have a few drawbacks. Upmost of which was that even though you could…More
Book Club Case Study: £15,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue in 57 Months
“We’re really focused on just making the membership experience as good as possible by engaging people more around the themes and making it easy for them to connect with each other and explore their curiosities. We’re already seeing lots of spin-off groups: writers, entrepreneurs, stoics, brunch crew and more.” Introduction Gaggle Mail, the makers of…More
Collapsible Side Bar
A quick update to announce that you can now minimise the side-bar when using Gaggle Mail on a tablet or desktop. Our mobile layout had to side-bar popping out when you needed it but previously on tablets and desktop you were stuck with the side-bar. This was ok on large screens…More
Improved Daily Digest and Moderation Emails
The Daily Digest feature is very popular on Gaggle Mail, we send thousands of digest emails every day. For many people these emails are their only interaction with Gaggle Mail so it’s important that they are as good as they can be. To this end, we have just rolled out some changes to digest and moderation…More
How To Save Your Yahoo Groups Message Archive
If we’re honest, it was no great surprise when Yahoo announced it was effectively shutting down Yahoo Groups at the end of the year. Once great, Yahoo Groups had been limping along for years, the last major update (codenamed “Neo”) was back in 2013 and that was universally hated by, well, everyone. If anything, it’s…More
Improved Message Archive
Being able to search your entire message archive has always been a key feature of Gaggle Mail which is why we’re delighted to have been able to spend some time over the last few months improving how it looks and how it works. We now allow you to select and view messages while still seeing…More
A Guide to Group Email
Email is going nowhere. Despite what you may have heard from Slack, Facebook, Whatsapp or other chat focused companies, email is here to stay. You can’t get away from that fact that EVERYONE has an email address and EVERYONE knows how to use email. It’s the lowest common denominator amongst electronic communication. Another thing that…More
How To Create a Listserv
A Listserv is a great way to easily facilitate group email discussion, there are plenty of advantages of having a Listserv over just including everyone in cc but we won’t go into them here, this article is about setting up a Listserv. The official Listserv software has been around for 30 years and is provided…More
Subgroups
TLDR Gaggle Mail now supports subgroups – and they’re awesome! It’s been a long time coming but we’ve finally added subgroups to Gaggle Mail. As with all features on Gaggle Mail, we really wanted to make sure subgroups were as simple and intuitive as they could be and I think we’ve done exactly that. …More
Adding a Free Plan
TLDR: We now have a free plan. From the very start Gaggle Mail was a paid service. This kept things simple, it meant we only had to support users who were actually paying us – which is great when your resources are small. It also meant that if people were willing to pay for our service…More