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| Google Gmail problem - "Nested groups detected". |
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| IainB:
I think Google engineers must have been making changes somewhere, because something has changed in the service. For over 4 years I have been using a rule in my Gmail that forwards certain incoming messages to a Google group. It's a very useful feature - when I am on a client's site, I can usually access this group through most corporate security filters, whereas I might not be able to access my Gmail account to read these messages. All of a sudden, I have stared getting this error: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: [email protected] [not a real email address] Technical details of permanent failure: Nested groups detected --- End quote --- Anyone know what/why this is? I don't think I have ever used the nested groups feature of Google groups, but I am aware that it is/was advertised by Google as a benefit for their commercial apps clients. I know little else about it. |
| justice:
NOt sure how much this will help you, but it might: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Apps/thread?tid=647d5de1c8ef2c45&hl=en Example of nested groups: Group 'le1' contains [email protected] Group 'ue' contains [email protected] Group 'everyone' contains Group 'le1' and Group 'ue' Send email to Group 'everyone'. --- End quote --- [email protected] is in a nested group. So perhaps abcd@googlegroups is subscribed to a your group and another subscriber of your group is a second group of which abcd@googlegroups also is a subscriber to. Therrefore this address is subscribed more than once. |
| IainB:
@justice: Thanks. I hadn't seen that particular link, but I did read up about "Nested groups", and they seemed like a useful feature from what Google documentation seemed to be saying about them. Be that as it may, it doesn't help to explain why I have suddenly only now started getting this block error message in Gmail, when I haven't changed anything to do with it - in Gmail or Groups. It's rather strange. That's why I say Google must have changed something. Maybe Google is about to announce the withdrawal of yet another service - who knows? |
| IainB:
Looks like other users are finding they have the same problem - I just found some posts about it in the Gmail support forum: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: Nested groups detected? So I added a post there as well. |
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