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

How To Run a Successful Group Email List

Group email lists are used for everything from small family groups to keep everyone up to date with what’s happening to thousands of members spanning multiple time zones and countries.  At Gaggle Mail we see all of them and there’s a few things the successful ones all have in common. Here’s our guide to what…More

Group Email Moderation

Gaggle Mail has supported message moderation for a while but we’ve just made some enchantments to make it more flexible and powerful.  The first thing you will notice is that we’ve moved all moderation options into their own tab.     In the new Moderation tab the first option is to switch moderation on or…More

The History Of Group Email

Email got its start in the late 1970’s but it wasn’t until the mid-1980’s and the personal computer revolution that things really took off.  Software to manage email lists first appeared in 1986 when Eric Thomas created LISTSERV the first group email software.  At this time it ran on wardrobe size mainframe computers.  Eric developed…More

New Simpler Pricing

We’ve just rolled out a new pricing structure which we think is simpler and fairer than what we had before.  Instead of fixed tiers for certain amounts of members we now have one price based solely on the number of members in your groups.  It seemed unfair that previously if you went from 500 members…More

Replying To Messages

After introducing the ability to compose new messages last month we’re pleased to announce that you can now reply to messages directly from within Gaggle Mail. We’ve rearranged the layout of the message popup to now show ‘Reply to Group’ and ‘Reply’ buttons.     As you can imagine clicking ‘Reply to Group’ will open…More

Compose New Messages Within Gaggle Mail

Sending a message to your group has just got even easier; you can now compose and send messages directly for the Gaggle Mail web interface.  The full functional text editor allows you format your message with ease.  Adding links, lists or images is a breeze using the toolbar actions.  You can even directly edit the…More

Streamlined Bulk Adding of Members

I’m delighted to let you know that we’ve just made adding members to your group even easier.  You can now drag and drop a .csv or Excel (.xlsx) file containing member names and email addresses directly into Gaggle Mail and we will extract all their details and prepare them to be added to your list.…More

How to Create an Email Discussion List

Gaggle Mail is all about making group email as easy to use as possible.  With that in mind we’ve just released an update which makes setting up your group even easier. Now when you create a new group with Gaggle Mail we show you a quick setup up wizard that walks you through the main…More

Alternative to Google Groups

Google Groups has been around for over 15 years (launched in 2001) and is very popular with small clubs and groups. Like most of Google services Google Groups is free with Google making it pay by showing ads and analyzing your groups data to better target more ads at you. Google Groups has not had…More