You can choose who receives email replies to posts in your Group. Using the “Post Replies” setting, Group managers can decide if an email is automatically sent to the entire Group, or if it’s shared with a smaller group of people, like just the sender or just the group managers.
Change Your Group’s Reply Setting
- Visit Google Groups.
- Click My Groups.
- Click the name of a group you manage.
- From the left-hand navigation menu, click Group settings.
- Scroll down until you see the Post replies to setting.
- This setting will be near the bottom of the settings page.
- Under the Auto replies settings.
- Choose your preference.
- Click the Save changes button.
Choices Explained
- All group members: Automatically send email replies to everyone in the Group.
- Group managers only: Only group managers see the email reply.
- Group owners only: Only group owners see the email reply.
- I mentioned it here because it is a choice, but the owner role is not used in our Google Groups Workspace.
- The author of the message only: The person who sent the original message gets the reply.
- Sender chooses recipient: Let the author choose who sees their email reply.
- Selecting "Reply" will send their response to the person who sent the original message.
- Selecting "Reply all" will send their response to the entire Group, as well as the author of the original message.
- A custom address: The group manager can designate a specific address to which replies will be sent.
- The address entered must be a valid email address.
For further Google Group support help, please see Google's Groups Help page.