Teams

What a team is, what it gives its members, how to start one, and the steps a leader takes to set it up.

A team is a group of people with at least one leader. It is how people get mail in Theorem: a team's leader adds the team's own domain, and gives each member an address on it, with a mailbox, a calendar and contacts. A team can also have roles and its own apps.

Open Teams from the menu under your name. Your teams are listed at the left, then any team that invited you, marked Invited.

What is whose

Your account is yours. You sign in with your own email. No team makes your account, takes it over or sees into it. Your chats and your drive stay yours whatever teams you join or leave.
What a team gives is the team's: the address and its mailbox, calendar and contacts. If you leave or are removed, you lose them, and the team keeps them.

You may be in up to 20 teams.

Leaders and members

A leader can	A member can
rename the team, turn its Mail and Calendar on and off	see the team's name, its members and roles
invite people, remove members, make a member a leader	leave the team
make roles and say who holds them	see their own address in the team
add domains, give addresses, add the team's apps

A team always has a leader: the last one cannot leave, be removed or be made a member. A member's sign-in email is shown to the team's leaders only. Other members see names.

Starting a team

Press New team, give it a name and press Create. You are its first leader. You need a name on your account first.

A team's name is 1 to 60 characters: letters, digits, spaces and the marks - ' & , . ( ). It cannot look like a web address or a phone number.
"Theorem", and names that read like it, are kept for Theorem's own team.
One account may start 3 teams. A team holds 50 people, counting invitations that still wait.

Setting a team up

On the General tab, under Apps, turn on Mail, and Calendar if you want it. A new team has both off. Calendar can be on only while Mail is.
On the Mail tab, add your domain and its records (Domains and addresses).
On the Members tab, invite people (Members and invitations).
Back on the Mail tab, give each person an address.
If you need them, make roles (Roles) and add your apps (Your team's connections).

Turning Mail off deletes nothing, and mail keeps arriving, but nobody can open the team's mail until it is on again. Turning Mail off turns Calendar off with it.

Leaving and deleting

On General, Leave team takes you out, with the address the team gave you. A leader who is the team's only member can Delete team. Its roles and invitations go for good. If it gave addresses, they stop working within about a minute, and their mail, calendars and contacts are destroyed after 30 days. Theorem asks first, and you type the team's name to confirm.