- Created a Gmail account: MailIDToSend@gmail.com
- Created a Google group linked to the account created above: TestGroupToSend@googlegroups.com
- Created another Gmail account: MailIDForNestedGroupProblem@gmail.com
- Created another Google group linked to the account created above: TestGroupToForward@googlegroups.com
- Forwarded all mails of the mail ID #3 to group #4
- Added the mail ID #3 as a member of the group #2
- Email Delivery options of both of group were left default, i.e. both the groups were sending email notification of posted messages to all group members.
(MailIDToSend@gmail.com) TestGroupToSend@googlegroups.com -----------posting message----------> MailIDForNestedGroupProblem@gmail.com -----------forwarding to------------> TestGroupToForward@googlegroups.com
Now when I post a message to TestGroupToSend@googlegroups.com on behalf of MailIDToSend@gmail.com, MailIDForNestedGroupProblem@gmail.com is getting notified & tries to forward the incoming notification to TestGroupToForward@googlegroups.com & fails with the following message:
Mail Delivery Subsystem mailer-daemon@google.com
10:38 PM (1 hour ago)
to me
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
TestGroupToForward@googlegroups.com
Technical details of permanent failure:
Nested groups detected
----- Original message -----
Received: by 10.205.129.8 with SMTP id hg8mr291689bkc.6.1327597703609;
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:08:23 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.205.129.8 with SMTP id hg8mr291688bkc.6.1327597703598;
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:08:23 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <mailidfornestedgroupproblem+caf_=TestGroupToForward=googlegroups.com@gmail.com>
Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f42.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f42.google.com [209.85.215.42])
by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b3si5437013bka.0.2012.01.26.09.08.23
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:08:23 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of mailidfornestedgroupproblem+caf_=TestGroupToForward=googlegroups.com@gmail.com designates 209.85.215.42 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.215.42;
Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of mailidfornestedgroupproblem+caf_=TestGroupToForward=googlegroups.com@gmail.com designates 209.85.215.42 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=mailidfornestedgroupproblem+caf_=TestGroupToForward=googlegroups.com@gmail.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@googlegroups.com
Received: by lahg1 with SMTP id g1so1142013lah.1
for <TestGroupToForward@googlegroups.com>; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:08:23 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.112.11.1 with SMTP id m1mr812059lbb.72.1327597703230;
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:08:23 -0800 (PST)
X-Forwarded-To: TestGroupToForward@googlegroups.com
X-Forwarded-For: mailidfornestedgroupproblem@gmail.com TestGroupToForward@googlegroups.com
Delivered-To: mailidfornestedgroupproblem@gmail.com
Received: by 10.112.60.196 with SMTP id j4cs22852lbr;
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:08:23 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <testgrouptosend+bncCK_Tw4ytBBCGkYb5BBoElKaSDQ@googlegroups.com>
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of testgrouptosend+bncCK_Tw4ytBBCGkYb5BBoElKaSDQ@googlegroups.com designates 10.68.73.198 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.68.73.198;
Received: from mr.google.com ([10.68.73.198])
by 10.68.73.198 with SMTP id n6mr460895pbv.13.1327597702133 (num_hops = 1);
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:08:22 -0800 (PST)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
d=googlegroups.com; s=beta;
h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:user-agent:x-http-useragent
:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender
:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list
:list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender
:list-unsubscribe:content-type;
bh=j+uJ1+KwQjMpdNiCngwvlv2FTzZnzkokoCYASnN36NE=;
b=f/uDbFF3qFZcxhDDPiDa5OaVdKRiom+X1dksFkuiiGio555Xfc7hNs4syZ7WhgrToO
RyXUxEhyyd00sRdE6l9Q7Q+fZUDds+aoJmJgdaeiLAwZ2ZaAtjHkeUt5u+KKyAweg8CO
gkNeENwXA5QV2vc0rroJGCyutCynQpte4kT4A=
Received: by 10.68.73.198 with SMTP id n6mr460895pbv.13.1327597702131;
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:08:22 -0800 (PST)
X-BeenThere: testgrouptosend@googlegroups.com
Received: by 10.68.51.72 with SMTP id i8ls9049425pbo.5.gmail; Thu, 26 Jan 2012
09:08:22 -0800 (PST)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.68.225.41 with SMTP id rh9mr452858pbc.14.1327597702029; Thu,
26 Jan 2012 09:08:22 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 3g2000pbd.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:08:21
-0800 (PST)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:08:21 -0800 (PST)
User-Agent: G2/1.0
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.00,gzip(gfe)
Message-ID: <81376551-7877-452c-8319-b6eb30fd32ad@3g2000pbd.googlegroups.com>
Subject: Hi
From: MailIDToSend MailIDToSend <mailidtosend@gmail.com>
To: TestGroupToSend <testgrouptosend@googlegroups.com>
X-Original-Sender: mailidtosend@gmail.com
X-Original-Authentication-Results: ls.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain
of mailidtosend@gmail.com designates internal as permitted sender)
smtp.mail=mailidtosend@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com
Reply-To: testgrouptosend@googlegroups.com
Precedence: list
Mailing-list: list testgrouptosend@googlegroups.com; contact testgrouptosend+owners@googlegroups.com
List-ID: <testgrouptosend.googlegroups.com>
X-Google-Group-Id: 1011230280507
List-Post: <http://groups.google...d/post?hl=en_US>, <mailto:testgrouptosend@googlegroups.com>
List-Help: <http://groups.google...pport/?hl=en_US>, <mailto:testgrouptosend+help@googlegroups.com>
List-Archive: <http://groups.google...tosend?hl=en_US>
Sender: testgrouptosend@googlegroups.com
List-Unsubscribe: <http://groups.google...scribe?hl=en_US>,
<mailto:googlegroups-manage+1011230280507+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>
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Hi
How the question of "nested group" comes into picture?
Some links to similar issue faced by people on or after second week of last December are:
http://www.google.es...b4d227cb7&hl=en
http://www.google.co...8900b11e0&hl=en
http://www.donationc...c=29310.0;imode
Please help.