GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a new EU directive coming in to force on 25th May 2018, it replaces the existing 1998 Data Protection act. Much of GDPR could be considered just good ‘data hygiene’ which most companies should already be doing: Only store what is required Always ask for permission to store personal data…More
New Activity Log
Just before the end of 2017 we renamed the Health tab in Gaggle Mail to Activity – this was more than just a renaming exercise though. The all new Activity tab gives you a single place to keep track of everything that’s going on with your group. As well as logging every message that is…More
Yahoo Groups Down Again? Here’s 7 Alternatives
Yahoo Groups is going through a rough time, users were unable to post new messages for most of last week and even though the service appears to have been restored there’s still lingering problems. Even before Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo, Yahoo Groups was in maintenance mode with no new development being done in years – but…More
Maximum Message Size Increased to 10MB
Great news! We’ve doubled the maximum message size you can send over Gaggle Mail from 5MB to 10MB. This is something which has been much requested and maybe it’s taken us a little longer than it should have but we’ve done it. To achieve this we’ve had to upgrade the hardware we run Gaggle Mail on…More
Group Email For Large Groups
Just a quick note to say we’ve increased the maximum group size in Gaggle Mail from 2000 members to 5000 members. Over the summer we’ve been busy preparing for this change, previously opening a group with 2000 member could take up to 10 seconds but now groups of this size and much larger open in…More
Design Refresh and New Logo!
Today I’m very excited to announce the redesign of the group and member management pages within Gaggle Mail. We’ve been working on this for a while and we’re really proud of how it’s turned out. As ever we’ve kept simplicity at the centre of what we do and this is reflected heavily in our changes.…More
How to Send Email to Groups Without Showing Addresses
When you’re sending an email to a group of people sometimes they all know each other and sometimes they don’t. When you want to send a message to a group without everyone seeing each other’s email address then you can use the BCC: field to keep recipient addresses hidden. Blind carbon copy works great but what…More
How To Send A Group Email In Gmail
If there’s a group of people you regularly email from Gmail it’s really useful to create a group contact you can use as an alias instead of entering their names each time. It’s straight forward to do – here’s how: 1. Go to Google Contacts (contacts.google.com). 2. Check the box next to everyone you…More
Adding Attachments While Composing a Group Email
You’ve been able to compose new group email messages from Gaggle Mail for a while now but we’ve just made this feature even more useful. You can now add attachments directly to the messages you compose. Previously if you want to send an attachment you’d have to send the message from your regular email client…More
Going Passwordless
TL;DR; How we used passwordless authentication to give users a low friction way of accessing private data. A popular feature on Gaggle Mail is the searchable message archive, this has always been available to group administrators but we wanted to make it available to group members. Group administrators already have an account with us which…More