Cohousing-L Mailing List: shared email accounts for Coho business

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

Some of our committees have created gmail accounts that are shared among
committee members, but we've just heard that Google is about to make it
near-impossible to share gmail accounts by requiring 2-factor
authentication. I think Yahoo now requires a phone number for a new account
-- I don't know if they're using it to authenticate or will do that in the
future.

The committee emails are one possible problem. The other actual concern is
access to our community's paid Zoom account that is used for community
governance, ie meetings. People are sometimes having trouble logging in to
start their scheduled meeting because Zoom is requiring them to enter a
verification code that is sent to a recovery email. The recovery email is a
gmail account, which has as its backup a Yahoo account that I monitor
pretty often. Lately Google has notified this Yahoo account about what it
sees as suspicious attempts to log in -- when someone needed to log into
Zoom, Zoom sent a verification code to the gmail account, and they couldn't
get in to the gmail account. What a circus.

TL:DR - how are your communities handling this, if you have team-wide gmail
accounts or a community Zoom account that is supposed to be available to
everyone who does governance tasks?

A related question is, is there a reliable free email service that does not
require a phone number?

I will appreciate any suggestions!

   Muriel at Shadowlake Village