[Dovecot] Proxy Access (Manager/Secretary) Best Practices?

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 06/17/2010 12:31 PM, Chris Hobbs wrote:
> I've mostly got our dovecot+postfix+SOGo+openldap open source
> groupware replacement working the way I want it to; we're replacing
> GroupWise in our organization and I'm thrilled to be doing it. I'm
> supporting about 1,000 active staff users (and another 6,000 student
> accounts).
>
> I've got e-mail and calendar sharing working, and it does what it
> says it will do, but it is (go figure) different in concept from
> Proxy access under GroupWise. In GroupWise, I can give my secretary
> proxy access to my account and she can read all of my folders, see my
> calendars, and send e-mail as me. To someone that receives an e-mail
> or appointment request from her while she's proxied to me, there's no
> distinction at all.
>
> Is there a way to mimic this sort of functionality with the tools
> I've chosen? I've figured out that I can add additional 'mail'
> attributes to the secretary's record, and those addresses are
> available as drop-down choices in the SOGo web interface, but with
> the secretary's name and not the manager.
>
> Any advice will be much appreciated.
>
> And many thanks to the developers involved for writing and making
> available such amazingly good software. Eliminating the license fees
> we've been paying to Novell is allowing me to save a technician that
> surely would have been eliminated in budget cuts this year.

Have two passwords, a secretary one and your real one. When you want to 
give your secretary access, change it to the secretary password. To 
revoke, change back.

(I know nothing about SOGo, so this is my brute force suggestion should 
no one provide a more intelligent one.)